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E-Readers Up Close: Using the Sony PRS-700

By William Stanek
November 18, 2009

The Sony PRS-700 has an internal storage capacity of 420 megabytes (MB) and two expansion slots: One expansion slot for Sony Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo cards up to 16 GB One expansion slot for SD, SDHC, or...

E-Readers Up Close: Using the Sony PRS-505

By William Stanek
November 18, 2009

The PRS-505 has an internal storage capacity of 192 megabytes (MB) and two expansion slots: One expansion slot for Sony Memory Stick Duo or Pro Duo cards up to 8 GB One expansion slot for SD, SDHC, or miniSD...

E-Readers Up Close: Getting to know the Sony Readers, Part 3

By William Stanek
November 15, 2009

William Stanek here, continuing with the in-depth look at e-readers and e-books. The recap: In my earlier blog entries, I've explored the ins and outs of e-ink, electronic paper displays (EPDs) and e-readers. Now, I'm examining individual readers as a...

Taking a Detour: E-readers A Soap Box

By William Stanek
November 12, 2009

William Stanek here, taking a slight detour in our continuing e-reader discussion. When it comes to favorite technologies, call me a zealot because I probably am. I'm not afraid to proclaim that I love technology that works, and I think...

E-Readers Up Close: Getting to know the Sony Readers, Part 2

By William Stanek
November 9, 2009

William Stanek here, continuing with the in-depth look at e-readers and e-books. In my earlier blog entries, I introduced EPDs, discussed how the technology works, and delved briefly into ways they're being used. Now, I'm examining the Sony Reader as...

Michael Tamblyn's TOC Frankfurt presentation (actually a dramatic recreation thereof)

By Andrew Savikas
November 7, 2009

via blip.tv Shortcovers' Michael Tamblyn was kind enough to record his talk and slides from last month's TOC Frankfurt Conference. I got a lot of great hallway feedback about...

"Web-based ePub validator adds Preflight and API" (via @liza)

By Andrew Savikas
November 4, 2009

From @liza at Threepress:"EpubCheck’s lesser-known companion checks for additional issues like content documents that exceed 300K, which can’t be loaded on the Sony Reader."http://blog.threepress.org/2009/11/04/epub-validator-updates/(ps -- thanks to @liza for making...

So Long iPod, Hello E-Reader

By William Stanek
November 4, 2009

William Stanek here, talking about electronic paper displays (EPDs). In my earlier blog entries, I introduced EPDs, discussed how the technology works, and delved briefly into ways they're being used. Now, I'll dig in and take a closer look at...

Despite recent gains for books, Games still dominate in the App Store (via @dliman)

By Andrew Savikas
November 3, 2009

O'Reilly's Ben Lorica slices and dices current app trends for iPhone and Android (nice data points on price stabilization too): "While it might be true that the number of Book...

New info on upcoming Ibis Reader from @liza's threepress -- another books-in-cloud model

By Andrew Savikas
November 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....

"E pluribus tunum: Uniform prices for online music are no way to maximise profit"

By Andrew Savikas
November 2, 2009

This research suggest maximum value in a digital media market like iTunes (for both producer and consumer) comes from a combination of subscription/membership fee and per-item purchase: "Charging an "entry...

In-depth insight from Tim O'Reilly on lessons learned from Safari Books Online

By Andrew Savikas
November 2, 2009

"As I outlined above, Safari adopted a "cloud library" model rather than downloadable ebooks as its fundamental design metaphor. I thought it might be worthwhile to understand how we arrived...

The Meaning of Droid | Monday Note

By Andrew Savikas
November 2, 2009

Nice competitive analysis of next moves for big mobile players (via @jafurtado)"One year later, we have a new situation, a real contender for the lead position in the exploding smartphone market....

Android's Impact on eBooks, Reading � Kindle Review - Kindle 2 Review, Books

By Andrew Savikas
November 2, 2009

The big Android question is - Is Android going to provide a fourth big channel for ebooks? Well, Android might be Very Important for eReading The first reason is that Mobile Devices and Mobile Internet...

O'Reilly Ebooks Now in Aldiko Online Catalog for Android

By Andrew Savikas
October 30, 2009

The iPhone gets a lot of the attention when it comes to smartphones, but signs point to Android playing a huge role in the growing smartphone market, with 20+...

Safari Books Online 6.0: A Cloud Library as an alternate model for ebooks

By Tim O'Reilly
October 27, 2009

There has been a lot of attention paid to ebooks lately, and for good reason. Electronic books are portable, searchable, and more affordable than print books. The web has accustomed readers to having the latest information at their fingertips; we all ask why books should be any less available "on demand." Amazon’s Kindle has received the most mainstream attention (with...

Windows 7 is Here! - Win free Ebooks.

By Laurel Ackerman
October 21, 2009

Windows 7 becomes widely available today, and O'Reilly has 2 new books to help you make the most of it.

Hard Numbers Behind the Current and Coming Mobile Future

By Andrew Savikas
October 20, 2009

Every year at Web 2.0 Summit, Morgan Stanley's Mary Meeker does a fantastic whirlwind tour of economic and technology trends she's watching, and in addition to a terrifying look at...

BookServer: A Web of Books

By Andrew Savikas
October 19, 2009

I'm thrilled to be at the Internet Archive's "Making Books Apparent" event today in San Francisco, where they're debuting the new BookServer architecture. As the audience for digital books grows,...

Kindle Device and Clipping Limits Now Lifted for O'Reilly Books in Kindle Store

By Andrew Savikas
October 8, 2009

Earlier this year, one of our authors reported hitting some sort of undocumented limit when using the "Clipping" feature on Kindle. And then other readers discovered they were unable...

Customer Loyalty for Mobile Devices

By Andrew Savikas
October 6, 2009

Some of the most interesting data on trends in mobile development has been coming from Flurry, an app analytics company (developers insert little snippets of Flurry code in their...

Anecdotal Evidence from the Digital Shift

By Andrew Savikas
October 5, 2009

Back in 2004, when I spent most of my time doing format conversions and production automation, I had the privilege of turning much of what I learned doing things like...

Four short links: 5 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 5, 2009

Brown Cloud Marketing -- advertorial "interviewing" GM of a company offering "DNS in the cloud". This might be a worthwhile service, but the way he markets it (by saying open source is "freeware" and the market leader is "legacy") reveals a rich vein of bozo. Freeware legacy DNS is the internet's dirty little secret (actually, it's the reason we...

Microsoft/O'Reilly Alliance Means DRM-free Ebooks Coming from MS Press

By Andrew Savikas
September 24, 2009

Full details are in Tim's post on the Radar blog (and in the Press Release and in the statement from Microsoft ), but thought one part of this deal worth...

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time)

By Mark Sigal
September 23, 2009

The book business is under assault. Book sales have been stagnating for some time, Amazon is the industry's boogeyman, and more terrifying, book publishers have no idea how to market books in a world (largely) devoid of bookstores. Moreover, in the age of the always on, it's fair to ask, do people even still read anymore? Just as it re-envisioned the Media Player, the Mobile Phone and Mobile Computing, Apple is well positioned to reboot the Book with its forthcoming iPad Tablet. Read on...

Talk Like a Pirate and Think Like a Pirate - Chance to win Ebooks

By Laurel Ackerman
September 19, 2009

Online security is critical for any website or application. To outsmart your enemies you have to think like them. O'Reilly has a number of books that tell you what to be on the lookout for and how to protect your online property from attack, as well as learn about vulnerabilities you may not be aware of. Share your best security advice and tips for a chance to win an ebook!

Mobile as New Medium

By Andrew Savikas
September 7, 2009

While prepping for my talk tomorrow on mobile publishing at the Digital Publishing Group in New York, I was also popping in and out of a related ongoing email conversation...

O'Reilly iPhone App Tips and Tricks

By Adam Witwer
September 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...

Labor Day weekend question: How does O'Reilly help you work better? - Chance to Win Free O'Reilly Ebooks

By Laurel Ackerman
September 3, 2009

We get tons of great feedback on oreilly.com; most of it positive, all of it appreciated. We hear how much people like the content, the format, the authors, and the forums. One additional thing that we're especially interested in, though, is hearing about how O'Reilly has helped you. Has a book helped you build a great project? Has attending a conference given you an edge at work? Has a training course helped you to advance your career or start a new one? Please tell us! We're going to leave this post open for comments through Tuesday 9/8; after that we'll randomly choose 5 commenters to each win a free O'Reilly Ebook of their choice. We're really looking to hearing from you!

Four short links: 14 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 13, 2009

Page2Pub -- harvest wiki content and turn it into EPub and PDF. See also Sony dropping its proprietary format and moving to EPub. Open standards rock. (via oreillylabs on Twitter) SQL Pie Chart -- an ASCII pie chart, drawn by SQL code. Horrifying and yet inspiring. Compare to PostgreSQL code to produce ASCII Mandelbrot set. (via jdub on Twitter...

The App Store and the Long Tail Part 2: The Real "DRM" At Stake

By Andrew Savikas
August 9, 2009

Note there's a lot of images in this post, so if you're reading it via RSS, you may want to click through to the original post if you can't see...

Does Digital Cannibalize Print? Not Yet.

By Andrew Savikas
August 6, 2009

One of the big risk factors publishers think about when it comes to digital books is that they will cannibalize print sales. Factor in the lower prices we're seeing for...

Four short links: 4 August 2009

By Nat Torkington
August 3, 2009

NASA Nebula Services/Platform Stack -- The NEBULA platform offers a turnkey Software-as-a-Service experience that can rapidly address the requirements of a large number of projects. However, each component of the NEBULA platform is also available individually; thus, NEBULA can also serve in Platform-as-a-Service or Infrastructure-as-a-Service capacities. Bundles RabbitMQ, Eucalyptus, LUSTRE storage, Fabric deployment, Varnish front-end, MySQL and more. (via...

Two Cool New Bookworm Features

By Andrew Savikas
July 30, 2009

There's no question that there's plenty of room for improvement among EPUB readers. From simple things like poorly handling multiple author names to more complicated issues like CSS support, readers...

Would an Apple Tablet be an Ereader? Yes and No.

By Andrew Savikas
July 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:...

Long Tail Evidence from The App Store

By Andrew Savikas
July 20, 2009

Last week we released 16 of our books as iPhone Apps (and on Saturday added The Twitter Book), and there's some interesting Long Tail data coming in. We've seen Long...

What Ebook Resellers Should Learn from Scribd

By Andrew Savikas
July 6, 2009

Scribd made a splash when they opened up a "Scribd Store" for selling view and download access to documents. Their terms (80% to the document publisher) are quite generous,...

"Being wrong is a feature, not a bug"

By Andrew Savikas
July 1, 2009

A thoughtful piece from Michael Nielsen on the disruption of the scientific publishing industry includes a lot that's very relevant to other publishers and media companies. For example: In...

Inside Look at RAND's $9.95 Ebook Pricing Strategy

By John Warren
June 9, 2009

Recently, the RAND Corporation announced that it has revised the suggested retail pricing on all RAND ebooks to $9.95 each. RAND ebooks are available through a wide variety of...

Google's Browser-Based Plan for Ebook Sales

By Mac Slocum
June 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...

Dear Adobe Digital Editions Team

By Keith Fahlgren
May 21, 2009

Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product.

Adobe Improves ePub Export from InDesign, But Still Has a Ways to Go

By Ron Bilodeau
May 21, 2009

So Adobe has finally released the latest update for InDesign CS4 (6.0.2). Basically, before this update was released, the ePub export functionality was broken. Here is the latest blog post from Adobe about the update: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2009/05/indesign_602_and_epub_export.html. With this update, I...

Undocumented Kindle "Clippings" Limit?

By Andrew Savikas
May 20, 2009

O'Reilly author Shelley Powers is a heavy user of Kindle's "clipping" feature, and has run into an apparently undocumented clipping limit imposed by Amazon: I tried to find information about...

Why $9.99 Won't Always Be an eBook Pricing Ceiling

By Joe Wikert
May 18, 2009

Have you stumbled across any of those Kindle owners who get angry anytime they see an ebook price over $9.99? How about publishers who insist on maintaining their print list price for the e-version? Btw, for the record, at O'Reilly...

Amazon's Physical vs. Digital Dissonance

By Andrew Savikas
May 18, 2009

In March of 2008, I wrote about the frustrating experience of trying to get this blog added to Kindle. Fourteen months later, apparently that "rather large ingestion queue" is still...

Scribd Store Sets New Standard for Ebook Ecommerce (and 650 O'Reilly Ebooks Included)

By Andrew Savikas
May 18, 2009

There are more than 650 (DRM-free of course) O'Reilly ebooks now on sale in the new Scribd store, which officially launches Monday morning. Full details over on O'Reilly Radar: For...

Scribd Store a Welcome Addition to Ebook Market (and 650 O'Reilly Titles Included)

By Andrew Savikas
May 18, 2009

The document-sharing site Scribd has launched a new "Scribd Store" selling view and download access to documents and books. As part of the launch, there are now more than 650 O'Reilly ebooks now available for preview and sale in the Scribd store, and all include DRM-free PDF downloads with purchase. (Scribd will soon be adding EPUB as a format, and...

Four short links: 14 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 13, 2009

Open Library Book Reader -- the page-turning book reader software that the Internet Archive uses is open source. One of the reasons library scanning programs are ineffective is that they try to build new viewing software for each scan-a-bundle-of-books project they get funding for. Should Libraries Have eBooks? -- blog post from an electronic publisher made nervous by the...

Ebook Piracy is Up Because Ebook Demand is Up

By Andrew Savikas
May 12, 2009

My email, twitter, and "real-world" information stream is abuzz today with references to a New York Times story about the increase in piracy of ebooks: “It’s exponentially up,” said David...

Amazon Demos Large Screen Kindle DX

By Mac Slocum
May 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...

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