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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Tor’s e-book giveaway: Someone is WRONG on the Internet
It happens to all of us: we see a conversation in a forum, or a chatroom, or a blog that calls out to us with its siren song. A...

24 hours ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Lessons from the Kindle: Simple use, easy buying and the right price
Here’s an excellent Kindle article from Elizabeth Blackwell on TheStreet.com. The various quotes from me are the result...

1 day ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-readers for comic book viewing
No, E Ink can’t render manga and other comics in color, and other challenges remain. But the iPhone offers colorful...

1 day ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-book gizmo round-up from Jane at Dear Author
The iPhone/Touch is the fave e-reader of Jane, the gizom-ist at the Dear Author site devoted to romance reading. Yes, these are...

1 day ago

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Antonio Tombolini shared an item

Social DRM: Watermarking and Ex-Libris
The publishing industry is quickly embracing digital publishing and is basically facing the same issues that the music industry had a few years ago. DRM, specifically, is a very complicated issue. Publishers are afraid that without it file sharing will...

2 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Social DRM: Watermarking and Ex-Libris
The publishing industry is quickly embracing digital publishing and is basically facing the same issues that the music industry...

3 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

WebScriptions and the iPhone: Easier downloads of Baen books and others
Already WebScriptions had guidance for Kindle users. Now, piggybacking on the BookShelf app, it’s simplified downloading...

3 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

M-edge Leisure Jacket for the Kindle - Review
Why is it that, so often, cases that come with products are really poor. That certainly is the situation with the Kindle case,...

3 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

How to download free e-books for your Kindle from Feedbooks (video)
Kindle Guide FB from zeta on Vimeo.The site is heavy on classics and Creative Commons titles.

4 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

What’s on your iPhone—or Sony Reader, or other gizmo?
I enjoyed Joe W’s post asking, "What’s on your Kindle"—but should e-reading be hardware-linked? So...

4 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-books, interactivity and my terrorist act at Vulture’s Point
Two engineering mavens from Clarkson and Penn State have been at work dissecting The Solomon Scandals. They’re helping...

5 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-books NOT a top app for iPhone—but they might still do well on the phone compared to other platforms
No e-books are in the top 100 paid apps for the iPhone’s US app store for the past three weeks, according to Ben...

5 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

eReader 1.1 for the iPhone and iPod Touch: Demo video from eReader/Fictionwise
See related eReader page here for more details.

12 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

Stanza e-reader, Feedbooks featured in upbeat Wired blog post
Wired blogger Charlie Sorrel is out with a gung-ho write-up on the Stanza e-reader app for the iPhone and iPod...

12 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Stanza e-reader’s desktop beta for Windows: Some glitches, but iPhone-related program is off to a great start
For some days now, I’d been testing the Stanza e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch.With Kindle-level ease, I could...

13 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., EPub, Stanza, The Solomon...

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Why Tao wanted you to buy shares in his novel—and why you should NOT invest in mine, except at a bookstore
A young Brooklyn novelist named Tao Lin offered 60 percent of his royalties from his next book to members of the public. Would...

14 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Wired, Eric Flint, the Kindle, and “Changing” the “Game”
In an article “cleverly” entitled “Kindle…Or Is It Just Kindling?”, Wired.com looks at whether the...

14 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

E-book apps are missing from the iPhone desktop, dammit—and ‘America America’ isn’t even in an iP-friendly format
OK, this is for the e-book-hip Sara across the Pond—Pan Macmillan’s Sara Loyd, there in the U.K. In a helpful,...

34 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

A DailyLit-Kindle idea: Enjoying daily book excerpts a different way
DailyLit is that nifty service that delivers bite-sized pieces of content to your e-mail in-box, allowing you to read a book on...

34 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

iPod Touch enters TeleBlog inner sanctum, Pan Mac exec answers my book biz gripe, and I commit OLPC sacrilege
I’ve been personally trying out Stanza, Zach’s Bedell’s BookShelf, eReader, and BookZ on the iPod...

34 days ago

TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home | Topics: E-books and all..., XO-1 and X0-2, e-book, e-book...

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Kindle 2.0 as early as October, perhaps? And more price drops on the old model?
Two new Kindles are on the way if CrunchGear is right:—"The first is an updated version with the same sized screen,...

35 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

The iPhone excitement and e-books: Pan Macmillan exec Sara Lloyd denies that publishers were cluelessly asleep
Pan Macmillan’s Sara Lloyd is defending publishers for not having jumped quickly on the iPhone as a platform—as...

35 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Smaller, brighter iPhone screen shows almost the same number of words as the Kindle
Cartwright Reed at Ingram Digital took a close look at E-books on the iPhone and compared the iPh-eReader duo with the Kindle....

36 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

iPhone and ePub: Popular combo for Feedbooks visitors
In a typical 48-hour period, Feedbooks‘ visitors might do 15,000-20,000 downloads in all formats.Just in ePub alone,...

37 days ago

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

David Rothman posted a blog entry

Sony Reader said to be on sale in Waterstone’s UK in the fall
Independent story here (via MobileRead). U.K. price of the Sony Reader—listed at around $300 in the...

37 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

PW e-book blog deletion still unexplained: Info-biz ramifications in the Google library debate and elsewhere?
Earlier we ran Google’s privatization of knowledge: Do-no-evil company said to control almost 90 percent of digibook...

38 days ago

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David Rothman posted a blog entry

A possible G phone, small screens vs. large, and rereading classic SF
Links of the moment: —The Gphone may really happen, and Ammunition Group may be designing it, from Tech Crunch. Another...

38 days ago

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

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PVI: E Ink display demand picks up in June—part of 23 percent sequential revenue rise
This is Good News—a pickup at the world’s largest E Ink display producer, which supplies Sony and Amazon/Kindle among others.Part of of a greater trend? Is the world economic slowdown about to reverse itself? Or is the trend still gloomy, despite...

Book Groups Wiki to bring authors, book groups together: Lit covens next from organizer Mindy Klasky?
I love this idea—a Book Groups Wiki. "This wiki is designed to bring authors and book groups in touch with each other. The wiki is organized by location; some locations are further broken down by region, province, or state." Strongly...

40 days ago

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Antonio Tombolini shared items

The ISBN mess: Yet another argument against eBabel and for ePub
Just how to handle ISBN numbers when e-books appear in a bunch of different formats? The more formats, the more hassles for publishers at this difficult time. Conversion hassles and less choice for consumer are just part of the eBabel mess. How many...

Top ten self-publishing myths
E-books are of interest to self-publishers because of low production costs and distribution efficiencies, particularly at the global level. Below are April’s opinions on DIY. Others’ welcome! - D.R.You’ve been honing your craft for years, you’ve...

54 days ago

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