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New info on upcoming Ibis Reader from @liza's threepress -- another books-in-cloud model
By Andrew SavikasNovember 2, 2009
Our part of this open ecosystem is Ibis Reader, an in-development digital reading system for a range of internet devices that provides access to books both online and offline....
Flash on Devices
By Rich TretolaOctober 6, 2009
Flash on Iphone: Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.* http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kusXgPAmMLw Flash10 on...
Economist on "Mobile Marvels" in Emerging Markets
By Andrew SavikasSeptember 29, 2009
Though here when we talk about mobile it's usually in the context of mobile reading and media, that's just a small piece of what's happening as we move to...
O'Reilly iPhone App Tips and Tricks
By Adam WitwerSeptember 4, 2009
As Andrew has discussed in some detail recently on this blog, O'Reilly has started publishing many books as iPhone/iPod Touch apps. Over the past couple of months, we've received a...
Would an Apple Tablet be an Ereader? Yes and No.
By Andrew SavikasJuly 28, 2009
Last Friday the latest round of rumors of an Apple Tablet swelled considerably after a piece from Apple Insider asserted the device is now on the 2010 product roadmap:...
CrunchPad Tablet Prototype Coming Together
By Mac SlocumJune 4, 2009
The low-cost tablet project ("CrunchPad") from TechCrunch is nearing the working-prototype stage: This launch prototype is another significant step forward from the last prototype. The screen is now flush with...
Google's Browser-Based Plan for Ebook Sales
By Mac SlocumJune 1, 2009
BEA '09 may be remembered as the moment when Google formally entered the ebook market. From the New York Times: Mr. [Tom] Turvey [director of strategic partnerships at Google] said...
Amazon Demos Large Screen Kindle DX
By Mac SlocumMay 6, 2009
Amazon released the large-form Kindle DX this morning. Notable specs include: The $489 DX ($130 more than Kindle 2) will be shipped this summer. It's currently available for pre-order through...
Report: Large-Form Kindle to Target Textbooks and Newspapers
By Mac SlocumMay 5, 2009
The Wall Street Journal says a large-form Kindle -- rumored to make its debut tomorrow -- will be partially targeted at the textbook market: Beginning this fall, some students...
Amazon Acquires Lexcycle
By Mac SlocumApril 27, 2009
Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza, has just announced it's been acquired by Amazon: We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of...
Sony-Google Deal Adds 500k Public Domain Books to E-Reader
By Mac SlocumMarch 19, 2009
Sony is adding 500,000 public domain EPUB-based titles to its Reader catalog through a partnership with Google. Paul Biba at Teleread examines Sony's rationale: Sony's apparent intent, meanwhile, beyond...
Coming to Grips with the "Unthinkable" in Publishing
By Andrew SavikasMarch 18, 2009
While much of the Twitter chatter this past weekend was about the annual South by Southwest festival and conference, there was quite a bit of "retweeting" of links to a...
Jakob Nielsen: Kindle Content Must be Kindle-Specific
By Mac SlocumMarch 16, 2009
Jakob Nielsen offers an in-depth look at Kindle formatting best practices: For Kindle, it's certainly unacceptable to simply repurpose print content. But you can't repurpose website content, either. For...
Kindle Comes to the iPhone
By Mac SlocumMarch 4, 2009
Users of the iPhone and iPod Touch can now tap into Amazon's Kindle store with the free Kindle for iPhone application. From The New York Times: The move comes a...
Hearst Gets Into the E-Reader Game
By Mac SlocumFebruary 27, 2009
Hearst Corp. is developing its own wireless e-reader that may debut this year. From Fortune: According to industry insiders, Hearst, which publishes magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Esquire and newspapers...
Video: Android meets Eink
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 13, 2009
Keeping with the "labs" theme for recent posts, via a tweet from George Walkley: Lots of talk about devices at TOC - now just saw this, Android + e-ink http://vimeo.com/3162590...
At TOC: Video from Yesterday's Kindle Announcement
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 10, 2009
Courtesy of Phil Torrone at makezine.com, here's video from yesterday's Kindle announcement:...
At TOC: A Different Way of Doing Booth Books
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 9, 2009
At most of our conferences, we sell books from our booth, and last year's TOC Conference was no exception. This year we're trying something a bit different -- including a...
At TOC: Drawing for Pre-loaded Sony Reader Signed by Tim O'Reilly
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 9, 2009
Sony has kindly donated a PRS-700 for the TOC Conference, and to celebrate crossing the 400-title milestone for titles available as eBook bundles today, we're giving it away, pre-loaded with as many of them as I can fit on an 8GB SD card in EPUB format, and signed by Tim O'Reilly.
Amazon Announces Kindle 2
By Mac SlocumFebruary 9, 2009
I've got just enough time between TOC tutorial sessions for a quick Kindle 2 post. As anticipated, Amazon unveiled Kindle 2 this morning. The $359 update is thinner (0.36...
Computerworld: The Coming eBook Revolution
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 7, 2009
Today Mike Shatzkin (a co-author on the StartWithXML Report ) passed along a pointer to another great article, this one from Computerworld's Mike Elgan listing six reasons that eBooks are about to explode . ... Egan left off what I believe is the most important aspect of writing for electronic reading, which is hyperlinking, but the thrust here is that all publishing is becoming digital publishing , and existing publishers ignore or delay dealing with this at their peril.
Google Opens Mobile Access to Public-Domain Books
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 5, 2009
Via a Google press release, word that visiting books.google.com/m provides mobile access to 1.5 million public-domain books from within Google Book Search: Today, we're making it possible for anyone...
Popping the Hood on the iPhone Missing Manual App
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 4, 2009
Over on Teleread, Chris Meadows has a nice review of our iPhone Missing Manual app, which echoes several other reviewers (and my own personal experience with the app): How...
The Coming Readers' Economy and Data Portability
By Mac SlocumJanuary 22, 2009
This is a guest post by Mark Bertlis. At the end of last year one event signaled a huge shift in how the book publishing industry will do business. It's...
Palm's webOS Represents Major Shift for Syncing and Data
By Peter BrantleyJanuary 12, 2009
In an article covering the Palm Pre mobile device, Ars Technica makes a very important point about how devices utilize network connectivity, and what the assumptions are underlying their...
iPhone App Outperforms Most Print (Computer) Books This Holiday Season
By Andrew SavikasJanuary 7, 2009
Conventional wisdom suggests that when choosing pilot projects, you pick ones with a high likelihood of success. It's hard to argue that iPhone: The Missing Manual was a reasonable choice...
iPhone Updates: Missing Manual Already #2; More Book Apps Hit iTunes
By Andrew SavikasDecember 23, 2008
We released David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual as an iPhone App on Friday, and by Saturday it was already the #2 for-pay App in the Books category on iTunes...
New Tech Mixes Book Experience with Sensors
By Peter BrantleyDecember 16, 2008
A new form of hybrid book is coming on the market -- and the inventor consults with Apple. From the Guardian UK: Lyndsay Williams -- who has already developed...
Report: 300,000 Sony Readers Sold
By Mac SlocumDecember 12, 2008
The e-reader guessing game may be in its final stages. According to theBookseller, Sony confirms it has sold 300,000 Readers since 2006: So far three million books have been...
Interstitial Publishing: A New Market from Wasted Time
By Joseph J. EspositoDecember 12, 2008
To grow, publishers must either battle other publishers over market share or identify and serve new markets. Which brings us to interstitial publishing; publishing between the cracks.
History Repeating with Book Publishing's Mobile Efforts
By Peter BrantleyDecember 10, 2008
A Computerworld blog post from Mike Elgan looks at recent mobile announcements from book publishers. From the perspective of technology, watching book publishers slowly grapple with the tentative migration...
800 Newspapers Coming to Iliad E-Reader
By Peter BrantleyDecember 6, 2008
iRex Technologies scores scores of newspapers for its new iLiad e-reader. From E-Reads: Digitally delivered news is gaining momentum and as we turn the corner to 2009 it's gotten...
Publishers: Let the Containers Go
By Mac SlocumDecember 3, 2008
In a guest post at Boing Boing, Clay Shirky says publishers who focus on book lovers rather than readers are setting themselves up to fail: Businesses don't survive in the...
Amazon iPhone App Uses Crowdsourcing for Product IDs
By Mac SlocumDecember 3, 2008
Amazon's new iPhone application has an experimental feature, dubbed Amazon Remembers, that blends product discovery and crowdsourcing. From the New York Times Bits blog: The tool lets users take a...
Open Question: Standalone iPhone Ebooks vs. E-Readers
By Mac SlocumNovember 25, 2008
Ebooks as iPhone applications started as a novelty/workaround, but the technique is now being used by Houghton Mifflin for a full-fledged digital rollout. From Wired's Epicenter blog: The publisher...
Random House Expands Ebook Offerings, Embraces EPUB
By Peter BrantleyNovember 25, 2008
Random House is pursing digital with a vengeance, recognizing a growth market. From the Huffington Post: The publisher already has more than 8,000 books in the electronic format and...
Q&A With Co-Creator of Classics iPhone E-Reader
By Mac SlocumNovember 24, 2008
The Classics app is a little different than competing iPhone e-readers: for starters, it's not free. Classics co-creator Phill Ryu discusses the app's pricing, design and development in this Q&A.
Point-Counterpoint: Digital Book DRM, the Least Worst Solution
By Bill McCoyNovember 24, 2008
In the second part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Bill McCoy examines two scenarios: a publishing industry that doesn't embrace interoperable DRM, and one that does.
Point-Counterpoint: On Digital Book DRM
By Peter BrantleyNovember 20, 2008
In the first part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Peter Brantley outlines reasons why DRM is bad for book publishers.
Ebook to iPod to Hard Copy Purchase
By Peter BrantleyNovember 18, 2008
Hugh McGuire is loving Stanza, the free ereader app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. From the Book Over Blog: 40,000 ebook dowloads-a-day. I've got 35 of them sitting on my...
Mobile First, PC Second
By Mac SlocumNovember 17, 2008
Over on Radar, Tim O'Reilly says the mobile tipping point is upon us: I think about the web as experienced on a PC, and then about mobile as an...
Android Barcode App Connects to Google Book Search
By Peter BrantleyNovember 12, 2008
Google has released a nifty Android app that permits the scanning of a book's barcode, enabling the linkage with the corresponding work in Google Book Search. From E-Reads: "Google has...
Connecting the Dots Between Google Book Search and Android
By Peter BrantleyOctober 31, 2008
Ed Nawotka of Beyond Hall 8 discusses the possibility that the Google Book Search settlement permits them to envision product delivery through Android-capable devices: Perhaps most important of all...
The Oprah Effect and the Kindle
By Mac SlocumOctober 24, 2008
Chris Nuttall from the Financial Times says Oprah Winfrey will likely "endorse" the Kindle on today's show: Amazon is featuring a trailer of her Friday show on its site...
The Analog Hole: Another Argument Against DRM
By Liza DalyOctober 22, 2008
No matter how strong the encryption, digital rights management can't block "analog hole" piracy.
Apple is Now a Phone Company
By Peter BrantleyOctober 22, 2008
Apple reported stunning results for the last quarter, and it has clearly become a dominant phone company in a very short space of time. John Gruber from Daring Fireball...
Report: No Kindle Launch in UK This Year
By Mac SlocumOctober 16, 2008
Europe's complicated mobile landscape will prevent the Kindle from launching in the UK this year, reports The BookSeller: In an interview with The Bookseller, Brian McBride, managing director of...
Open Question: How Can Publishers Capitalize on Hot Topics?
By Mac SlocumOctober 14, 2008
It's never been easier to crank out a quickie book, but is this the best way to capitalize on a hot topic? Please share your thoughts.
Newsweek Repackaging Candidate Coverage for Kindle Bios
By Mac SlocumOctober 14, 2008
Newsweek will aggregate its coverage of John McCain, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden into four Kindle-only biographies. From Amazon's Kindle Blog: The book-length biographies contain archived reporting...
Readius Rollable E-Reader at Frankfurt Book Fair
By Mac SlocumOctober 13, 2008
The Readius rollable e-reader will be presented at this week's Frankfurt Book Fair, according to the Readius official blog. First announced in July, the Readius is a cell-phone-sized gadget...
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