Topic: e-book ergonomics

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Library news: E-book availability in rich and poor districts in U.S.—plus Jeff Scott’s ALA conf write-up
Public libraries report a double-digit growth in Internet services, according to an LISNews item summing up an ALA report. You...

24 hours ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon Kindle, DRM, E-books and all..., audio books

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Waterstone’s debut: 7K titles to start—and an average discount of 20 percent
Waterstone’s opened its e-book section today, and here are stats via our friends at TheBookSeller.com:–7,000...

3 days ago

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Intel software guy: ‘Why I will never own an electronic book’
Clay Breshears, an Intel software network blogger offering his personal opinions, serves up a bunch of cons about e-books, but...

3 days ago

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Joe’s Kindle Webinar, Part II: Quick info on piracy, retail sales and other topics, including K use outside U.S.
Here are some of the other questions I wasn’t able to get to during my recent Kindle webinar. Also see Part I if you...

3 days ago

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E-books for America’s 2.3 million prisoners? P-sellers already aiming at Houston-sized population behind bars
Would you believe, one out of 100 American adults lives behind bars—the prison variety? "On the average," reports...

3 days ago

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OLPC: Touchscreen XO-2 in Q1 of 2010—and Amazon to handle Give One Get One program in late ‘08
The exact due date of the XO-2, successor to the XO-1 of One Laptop Per Child, is the first quarter of 2010. Costs is to be...

3 days ago

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Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere PDF available at no cost—but not ‘free’
As reported in Neil Gaiman’s blog, Neil Gaiman’s publisher HarperCollins is going to release his book Neverwhere as...

4 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, DRM, E-books and all..., Free e-books

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New iPod Touch and Nano designs apparently leaked:
iPod nano 4G, touch 2G dimensions revealed? is the headline at iLounge. Unless I’m missing something, which I might be, I...

4 days ago

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A solar-powered e-book reader: A real gizmo, not just a design
Holly Gates ran across our item raising the possibility of solar-cell covers to help power E Ink machines. But what...

4 days ago

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Android’s App Market vs. Apple approach: Which is better for e-book-lovers?
Google is planning Android Market, and apparently it will be more open than the iPhone App store. Which approach do you think...

6 days ago

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Kindles and Sony Readers vs. multiuse devices like the iPhone
In this never-ending debate, DearAuthor quotes Nancy K. Herther, an anthropology and sociology librarian at the University of...

7 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., Sony Reader, e-book

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E-book sales rocket up at Random House, Penguin, S&S and elsewhere
"Last week Random House announced sales for e-books were already more than double the total for 2007. The trade body, the...

7 days ago

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‘Books vs. eEbooks: Which are greener?’
John Platt at RiverWired weighs in, and veteran e-publisher Elizabeth Burton challenges him on various points.The TeleRead...

7 days ago

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E booked for Ireland and beyond
Although I’ve continued to manage the TeleRead backend over the years, I’ve taken a little (involuntary) hiatus...

8 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., Robert Nagle, Sony Reader, e-book

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Kindles in the classroom
A tip of the hat to my former colleague Steve Pool for this one. Steve, by the way, is Director of Content Management and...

8 days ago

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W.H. Smith will sell Cybooks in France starting next month
Details from ActuaLitté (thanks to Nicholas Gary). Google translation here. Cybooks—at least some and maybe...

9 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Cybook, E-books and all..., e-book, e-book...

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Page numbers, global progress bar, full-page views show up in eReader update
One of my gripes against iPod e-reading software is that it typically lacks a progress bar for an entire book and offers one...

9 days ago

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Wired blogger’s "Kindle 2.0" wish list
So we now know that, unless an Amazon rep is outright fibbing, there will be no new Kindles this year.Writing for...

10 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Kindle-friendly book light: Used it? As good as people say?
Check out the, er, glowing customer-reviews for the Mighty Bright XtraFlex2 Light, which sells for for $16.02 (TeleBlog Amazon...

10 days ago

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Ex-OLPC screen whiz: Spiffy new display tech to debut for e-readers and laptops in ‘09
This screen-related gem was spotted by the sharp-eyed Michael Harris in the blog of Mary Lou Jepsen, formerly OLPC’s CTO...

10 days ago

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New Internet Explorer 8 browser beta from Microsoft: Anti-Google weapon via partnership arrangements?
One gimmick is that the new IE 8 will come with search arrangements with a number of content-related partners. Interesting. But...

10 days ago

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Amazon hiding sales ranks of naughty books? E-book standards and DRM angles?
Details at NonstopBooks—complete with some explicit titles, so don’t go there if you’re squeamish.The books...

10 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, E-books and all..., EPub

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1981 Philip Dick SF novel describes Kindle-ish gizmo for students: Some TeleRead parallels, too?
Since the early 1990s I’ve been calling for well-stocked national digital library systems with integration with local...

11 days ago

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E-textbook con? Students might NOT actually save from E, says public interest group’s report
Some publishers ballyhoo e-textbooks as a win-win for them and students. But students can resell paper books, so the net...

11 days ago

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Downside of Apple App Store? Censorship
Murderdome iPhone preview (contains violance)Comic Reader is an iPhone app. Murderdome is a comic book series, apparently...

12 days ago

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Why the iPhone IS a strong Kindle rival: Wisdom from Tim O’Reilly and Jim Lichtenberg
No, this isn’t Kindle-bashing—I see success for both the iPhone and Kindle. But too many people have dissed the...

12 days ago

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Amazon gobbles up Shelfari book-sharing biz
This is the TeleBlog, right? Not the AmaBlog? But I haven’t any choice. A third Amazon item this morning, groan, groan,...

12 days ago

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Kentucky Fried Kindles, anyone? What if Amazon licensed Kindle tech for other vendors to use in their gizmos?
Kentucky Fried Kindles, anyone?What if Amazon licensed manufacturers to pick up the basic tech—and serve it up in form...

12 days ago

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BizWeek blogger: New Kindle to come out in September-October and maybe even sell for as little as $249
Attention, Kindle shoppers! Stop! Don’t click on the Buy button, regardless of the $100-off credit card deal. Version 2...

12 days ago

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New iPods to be unveiled on September 9?
MacRumors, Ars Technica and Engadget are carrying such speculation. Here at the TeleBlog, we’re rooting for a larger...

12 days ago

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Ars Technica on student Kindle
Ars Technica covers the analyst’s report talking about the rumored new Kindle models, which we covered here.Ars notes...

13 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Blog tax via energy tax? Kinda. Up with WaPo editorials! Down with evil Net! Lapse from self-satirizing D.C. elite
Was this guitar-lovin’ environmental lawyer—yes, I’ll explain why the guitar matters here—aiming for an...

13 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

iPhone Stanza e-book reader updates to 1.3
I just received the download from the Apple Store, and have played with it a little.Changes made since my comprehensive review...

14 days ago

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A comprehensive review of iPhone e-book options
Steve Pendergrast of Fictionwise has reported that iPhones seem to be siphoning off Kindle users. But after looking at all of...

15 days ago

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Sony Reader screen put in Kindle body after Little Sis steps on K Machine: Tech-smart Miss does FrankenReader surgery
Just the other day, we were fretting that tech and e-bookdom lack enough women. Down with the stereotypes. Now a question for...

15 days ago

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E-books, Obama-Biden and Prohibition: Any hope of educating the Dems about anti-consumer laws like Bono and the DMCA?
Draconian U.S. copyright law is like Prohibition, turning the honest e-book-lovers into criminals.But could E life could...

15 days ago

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Touching on the iPod
I promised I would review the cardboard iPod Touch and stylish, attractive cardboard box I received yesterday, and after a day...

15 days ago

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Early Mickey Mouse to enter public domain by accident?
"…Legal scholars—acting on a discovery by a disgruntled ex-Disney archivist—are arguing that the...

16 days ago

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‘Q & A with developer who turns e-books into iPhone applications’
"Ebook files and e-reader software usually exist as separate entities, but Tom Peck of AppEngines merged the two to create...

16 days ago

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