NoteSlate updated their website this past week. This wasn’t just a marketing refresh; there’s a lot of new details about the device’s abilities. They’ve improved the firmware and expect to have OCR support on it at launch, along with basic gestures recognition, and improved format support. There are also several images that appear to be [...]
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NoteSlate website update, still no info on screen tech
February 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Txtr have relaunched their website
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
In the wake of the death of the txtr reader, Txtr the company have redisgned and relaunched their website. They’re focused now on the software platform, which consists of reading apps for iOS and Android as well as the website. They’ve made a number of changes, including improvements to the UI, Faceebook integration, and restructuring [...]
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Overdrive updated the Virtual Library Branch website today
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · digital library
Overdrive announced today that they’ve updated the mobile version of the digital library with a new interface and an enhanced user experience. When you visit your local library’s “Virtual Library Branch” from a mobile device, you’ll now see a selection that will only include content you can actually use. For example, if you visit with [...]
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LostBookSales.com lets you tell publishers why you didn’t buy that ebook
November 16th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
by Chris Walters of BookSprung One of the more heated discussions about ebook reviews these days is whether it’s appropriate to leave one-star reviews on sites like Amazon if what you’re really reviewing is the price. Although it’s easy to see why people unconcerned with pricing would be annoyed, there’s still no good, public alternative [...]
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GoodEreader.com – your friendly neighborhood ebook pirate
October 21st, 2010 · 25 Comments · opinion
If you follow ebook news, you might have heard of a site called GoodEreader.com. At first glance it looks like a news site. It has a blog, podcast, and a monthly magazine, and they even opened an e-reader store last week. But all of that is all a facade that they are using to hide [...]
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B&N should sell off their stores and focus on their website
August 3rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion
So B&N are thinking about putting the company up for sale and try to go private. From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced that its Board of Directors intends to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, in order to increase stockholder value. [...]
A couple of my ebooks are on the NASA website
July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Last summer I decided to start making ebooks. It wasn’t a hobby so much as it was simply a good reason to teach myself HTML+CSS. One of my sources for content was the NASA’s historical website. They’ve been printing books for at least 50 years now, and in mid to late 1990′s most of the [...]
Wowio relaunch their new & improved website
July 1st, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Today WOWIO, Inc., an established market leader with an online destination that provides access to rich digital media content and eBooks, announced the launch of its newly redesigned website, www.WOWIO.com. The revamped site features a cleaner layout showing the latest releases and titles and enhances user experience and online reader usability. [...]
Paradise Publishers launches new free ebook website
May 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
I just heard about a new free ebook site. Paradise Publishers has announced Free-eB0oks.net. This is a membership site with 2 levels. The standard membership is free, but you’re limited to only reading the ebooks online (and 5 PDF downloads a month). The VIP membership lets you download the ebooks in PDF, Epub, and Mobipocket. [...]
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