ebooks
The Makers Of Foxit Reader Enter eBook Reader Race
Foxit Software, famous for their Adobe Reader alternative Foxit Reader, has entered the eBook Reader race with the release of Foxit eSlick. A competively priced (US$229.99 direct, US$259.99 rrp) alternative to the Kindle and Sony Reader, eSlick uses Foxit’s PDF viewer technology to let users read PDFs on the electronic reading device.
All-in-all the specs for [...]
Random House To Expand E-Book Offering
Last week Random House announced that pensions would be frozen at current levels for existing employees and future hires would receive no pension amid declining sales and a gloomy forecast for 2009. This week they announced that they are broadening their digital book business by expanding their e-book offerings to include titles by authors such as [...]
U.S. E-book Sales Increase 55.2 Percent So Far in 2008
TeleRead.org reports that while traditional paper book sales have dropped in 2008, sales of E-books have actually increased 55.2 percent in the same period. To be fair, paper book sales still dwarf E-book sales, by a massive margin — but I expect that the increase in E-book sales will continue in 2009 as electronic E-book [...]
BeBook Technical Review
Courtesy of Ian P. Christian, a review of BeBook, an E-Ink reader:
C’mon and touch me, touch me, touch me.
Charlie Sorrel of gaget lab, talks of the dream of Wired Editor Leander Kahney –who yet in turn comments on the 9to5Mac’s rumor on the “The Brick”.
Kahney wishes for two touch-screen iPod Touches joined at the hip — useful for ebooking, notebooking, or sharing with another person (not so sure about this one…).
Both Leander and Sorrel [...]
Extra, extra — read all about it, textbooks given away free (well, cheaply)!
An up-and-coming company, Flat World Knowledge plans to go live in January 2009, offering an alternative way for students to purchase their textbooks (in mostly digital form). Online versions will be free, PDF versions will be cheap, and print on demand versions will be modestly priced. You’ll be able to view these on devices such [...]
The Amazon Kindle - a real firestarter? Top five comments…
Now about 10 months from its release in mid-to-late November in 2007 — enough time has passed to see what people really think of Amazon’s Kindle.
For those who haven’t owned one, used one, or otherwise seen one - you can find a floating copy of the original introduction video here on YouTube - The Amazon Kindle.
I’ve [...]
Plastic Logic previews new electronic-reading device at DEMOfall 08
Plastic Logic have announced a new electronic-reading device aimed at the business market.
The device mirros a 8.5 x 11-inch sheet of paper in size, is thinner than a pad of paper, has built-in wireless, and unlike the Kindle, will include native support for a number of common file types:
The Plastic Logic reader supports a full range [...]
Lost your copy of the Kama Sutra?
I’ve had a (long) long-time interest in ebooks — back in 2000, I even devised a device called the Paper-Simulator 3000 (almost patent pending) — its main aim was to provide a method by which paper-book-addicts could migrate across to ebook reading.
Complete with a strap on leather binder, dried-ink odour dispenser, and a motorised random [...]
The Kindle, DRM and sharing books
Brad Feld raised a fair point in his The Kindle and DRM blog post today by posing the question — why isn’t it possible to share ebooks, which you’ve purchased through Amazon for your Kindle, with other people?
He’s not talking about creating multiple copies of the ebook and sharing it with people, he’s talking about [...]
Who needs a Kindle, when you’ve got an Eee PC
Up until recently I had been thinking about buying a Kindle. From the reviews I’ve read, it sounds pretty good, and not having to carry around physical books is a real bonus.
So as preparation for buying a Kindle I thought I’d try reading a few e-books on my Eee PC, to see if I could [...]
