Topic: E-books and all that

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Does Wowio mean "Wow, we owe"?
Wowio, which had such a promising start, is not looking so good anymore. After making significant (and much grumbled-about)...

50 minutes ago

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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

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Authonomy author feedback site: More pros and cons
Authonomy, HarperColllins’ site providing feedback to writers seeking publication, is a well-intentioned effort. Joe...

1 day ago

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87 percent rise in reported e-book sales in June 2008 compared to same month in ‘07
Would you believe, trade e-book sales reported to the IPDF rose 87 percent in June compared to the same month a year ago. The...

2 days ago

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Pan Macmillan’s retreat from hated DRM: Igorsk downloads three non-infested titles—and enjoys the good news first-hand
What percentage of Pan Macmillan e-books are DRMed, and what percentage are genuinely ownable? That’s still unclear in...

2 days ago

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ePub and the piracy issue: Benefits dwarf risks
Will ePub help pirates by letting them effortlessly turn books into Web sites? The Times Emit blog raises that possibility,...

2 days ago

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Sony Reader trial at Penn State: Why not try student discounts instead, or even freebies?
Sony isn’t thinking big enough on this opportunity for its Reader at Penn State University. As this article notes,...

2 days ago

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New Sony Reader with WiFi in November? Mac OS software, too?
Will a new Sony Reader appear with WiFi in November? That’s the tantalizing rumor postedin an MR forum, based on a...

2 days ago

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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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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New service could help small publishers go E and POD: ePub is key format
"Print-ready PDFs will be converted into .epub and other formats as required in order to distribute the electronic file...

3 days ago

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

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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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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Jeffrey A. Carver frees Strange Attractors
A few days ago, I mentioned that Jeffrey A. Carver had posted the first novel in his Chaos Chronicles series, Neptune Crossing,...

4 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: Chris Meadows, E-books and all..., EPub, 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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Are e-books a social turn-off?
Wired’s Charlie Sorrel, whose blog entries have been mentioned a few times here on TeleRead, takes a swipe at e-books in...

4 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Stanza iPhone e-reader adds newspaper and magazine RSS feeds, high school reading list and other pub domains books
Apple will be ballyhooing new iPod-related products on September 9.The unlikely possibility at the top of my dream list?...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Google’s new Chrome browser: Download link, other info
Google has posted a download link and other information for the Chrome browser, discussed earlier today from an e-book angle. I...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

First-line fun: Science fiction-related app from BookGlutton for Facebook
From Travis Albers at BookGlutton and slightly edited: BookGlutton has launched a new Facebook application called Future First...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Tom Peters biz books now available from DailyLit—plus some Twitter angles at DL
Here’s yet one more sign that books by e-mail and RSS have a future. Titles from management expert Tom Peters are now...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

U.K. Sony Reader debut: Brits to pay more for Sony Reader global best-sellers than Americans do? Or buy from non-U.K. stores instead?
The Sony Reader is already available to U.K. book-lovers via Sony Centres, Sonystyle.co.uk and Waterstone’s bookshops or...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-book apps coming to new Google browser? Beta’s due today as free download
Come on, Google. You can do it—the ePub e-book standard, I mean. Google has just launched a new browser, which could, as...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-book category added to iPhone App Store
The iPhone App Store has added an e-book category, with around 170 listings, mostly public domain books selling for 99...

6 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Not just the iPhone: Eee PC owner on why he didn’t buy a Kindle
I see roles for all kinds of e-book-capable devices. In the middle of the Kindle-Sony/iPhone debates, let’s not forget...

6 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Internet vs. writers? Two tales from the dark side: A leaked Stephenie Meyer draft, plus the Net as a time sink
Let’s get it straight. I’m been on the Internet since 1993 and can’t stop praising the Net as a bridge...

7 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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

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Net fiction written as text messages: ‘Twitter’ and ‘thriller’ = ‘Twiller’
This week Twilight Times Books is locking up the first galleys for The Solomon Scandals, the D.C. newspaper novel on which...

7 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Net-ignorant pols and corporations reducing U.S. Internet clout: Bad news for Hollywood, Americans publishers, the AP and Yank culture in general
Ten years ago the United States carried 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic. Now? A mere 25 percent, according to...

7 days ago

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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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Times of London article on ebooks
The Times of London has an interesting article on ebooks in its August 31 issue.It states that both the Sony Reader will debut...

8 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

How to install the new eReader safely on your iPhone—plus info on that progress bar at the bottom of the screeen
How can you install the new eReader upgrade safely on your iPhone or iPod Touch, so you can enjoy a progress bar, page numbers...

8 days ago

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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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Missed the Joe’s Kindle webinar for e-bookers? Here are the archives—plus answers he lacked time to give
Book Business Magazine hosted my Kindle webinar last Thursday, and I had a lot of fun with the presentation. If you missed it,...

9 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

iPhone apps from Houghton Mifflin Houghton—including American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
"In the first move by a major American publisher to publish iPhone-ready (and friendly) reference material, Houghton...

9 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

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

‘F. Scott Fitzgerald still trying for success in Hollywood’
The Sonny Bono copyright term extension law has resulted a torrent of creativity output, right?Leaping out of his grave at...

9 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

How much are writers making from the Kindle sales?
Any writers care to share dollar sales stats—-either through direct dealing with Amazon or reports from publishers? Mitzi...

9 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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No new Kindle in ‘08, says Amazon official quoted by name: Chief spokesman Craig Berman
Is Amazon playing mind games with the media? Or maybe changing its mind—because people might shun the existing Kindle if...

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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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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David Rothman posted a blog entry

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

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

So why isn’t the Kindle drawing more search interest? Plus more on The Numbers Debate
In The Great Kindle Numbers Debate, the latest wrinkle is a search trend chart created via Google. It suggests that the iPhone...

11 days ago

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