(posted 3 Days Ago)
Today we're launching our first new news vertical in almost four years:
Mediagazer ,
which will focus on the content production and distribution business,
organizing topics as wide as journalism, blogging, video production,
e-books, and digi...
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E-books aren’t going to replace books. E-books are books, merely with a different form. More and more often, that form is ePub, a format powered by standard XHTML. As such, ePub can benefit from our nearly ten years’ experience building standards-com...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
Filed under: App Store , iPad
The number of eBooks in the App Store has surpassed the number of games for the first time, and the spread is widening. Mobclix , a mobile device advertising agency, reports that as of last month, the...
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(posted 22 Hours Ago)
Obeus.com - Pay Per Click Advertising , Pay Per Click Affiliate Program , Sites Directory . Advertising . More about Gilberto\'s Authority Blog
Image by Getty Images via Daylife
Building opt in list and affi...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
Filed under: iPad
The iPad , like the iPhone , used the Oscars to make its ad debut . As is typical with an Apple ad, the iPad's ad featured a montage of different uses for the device, all while set to the backdrop of a catchy tune.
In m...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
For those retaining an interest in ebooks and publishing economics , here are a few interesting links. First, via Nick Harkaway : proper academic research that asks what happens to book sales if digital versions are given away for free? The an...
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(posted 12 Hours Ago)
During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7 , sports a form factor similar to Apple's iPad , as well as similar uses; it supp...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
The past two years have seen the public’s interest in e-books reach dizzying heights. The Kindle and other readers have pushed the e-book phenomenon in front of mainstream consumers. The imminent appearance of the iPad and the iBookstore have...
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When the platform changes, the leaders change. Wordperfect had a virtual monopoly on word processing in big firms that used DOS. Then Windows arrived and the folks at Wordperfect didn't feel the need to hurry in porting themselves to the new plat...
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(posted 12 Hours Ago)
Filed under: iPad
During CES 2010, HP gave the public a slight tease of its upcoming slate device. The touchscreen device, which runs Windows 7 , sports a form factor similar to Apple's iPad , as well as similar uses; it supports eBooks...
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(posted 23 Hours Ago)
Mobile chipmaker ARM is basking in the attention the iPad is getting. ARM chips are used in all sorts of mobile gadgets, especially in the expected flood of tablets to be released this year. An ARM executive in Taipei has indicated the company ex...
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Reuters and ZDNet report that, at a Digital Inclusion Summit aimed at addressing the 1/3 of American households that lack broadband service, the FCC has announced it may make wireless spectrum available for an “affordable” national broa...
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26,985 books are currently available as apps in the iPhone App Store. This is the first time the number of books available has exceeded the number of games (25,348).
Of course, this is far less than Amazon and Sony, which both offer over 400,0...
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(posted 3 Days Ago)
The Latest in Books, eBooks, and Audiobooks . W e’re coming up on the eBook and paperback release of 100 Stories for Haiti . I’ll keep you posted. I’m still hoping that an audiobook version will produced soon. Free Prev...
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(posted 10 Days Ago)
A new faster processor from chip maker Freescale could help cut down the cost of components for e-readers and introduce a $150 device later this year.
Freescale’s latest system-on-chip, called the i.MX508 , integrates an ARM Cortex A8...
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(posted 6 Days Ago)
Lucidor is a computer program for reading and handling e-books. Lucidor supports e-books in the EPUB file format, and catalogs in the OPDS format. Lucidor runs on the GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Lucidor provides functio...
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(posted 2 Days Ago)
The Comedy Central-Hulu announcement last week made me recall my New Year’s resolution, one that I wanted to share publicly, and encourage you to embrace as well. It is simple in its concept, but epic in scope. It involves eliminating somethin...
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Tim O'Reilly tweeted a great article from the New York Times on the math of publishing traditional print versus eBooks . If you publish print books, and aren't as aggressive as O'Reilly Media at experimenting with new forms , or looki...
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(posted 6 Days Ago)
The end of the week is here bringing another chance to share the happenings in my world. That world is Mobile Tech Manor, my home office, and it’s a happening place with a revolving door for cool gadgets and technology. This week the gadget...
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Read an E-Book Week has begun for 2010, and this year promises to outdo all previous years by an order of magnitude. Rita Toews has been working her butt off, interviewing for periodicals and blogs, contacting and drawing in new participants ...
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