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Ah, the suspense.
Would Gary Price —the founding info-maven of ResourceShelf — buy The Case for Books in an electronic or paper edition?
TeleRead promised an answer, and directly from Gary himself, here it is. – D.R.
The winner? The e-book version, which I’ve been ...
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Matt Hamblin in Computerworld offers eight reasons why dedicated e-readers like the Kindle and Sony Reader could fail . Check out his piece for the full story.
(1) “Price of devices,” (2) “price of e-books,” (3) “Smartphones,” (4) “Apple’s rumored tablet computer,” (5) popular authors’ ...
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How to download free book directly via your Kindle’s built in Web browser?
Alas, Project Gutenberg and most other public domain sites aren’t optimized for small screen devices with slow browsers. And free download guides—with built in links to public domain books—are not as ...
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I reprint this in full from Resource Shelf . What a great (can I say it?) resource!
A Never Ending “Virtual Stream” of Digitized Text
by Gary Price, Senior Editior
When Chris Sherman and I were writing and then giving book talks and presentations about The Invisible Web, we said John Mark ...
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According to Engadget , via the NY Times, the Nook is sold out and the next round of readers will ship out around January 4.
If memory serves, didn’t exactly the same thing happen to the Kindle 1?
Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news.
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Now that Sony has revealed plans for a new iTune-like store —offering e-books along with music, movies and apps—I was curious if this might just help pave the way for a multimedia tablet. You think Sony would answer that question directly right now? Dream on. But spokesperson Val ...
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The capital-letter-challenged eDGe is now offering ebooks in their new store . They have cute a deal with Ingram Digital for ebooks and with LibreDigital to provide ebooks and over 175 periodicals. They are also connected with the Google Books for download from that source.
I poked around ...
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Kirtas is a maker of automatic book imaging systems. They also have a POD service that is open to the general public. I poked around their book site after getting an email from them and here’s what I found.
Take, for example, the book A catalogue of English and foreign bookbindings ...
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This appeared on the Kindle Facebook page. It would be great if something like this happened.
Kindle Customers, We have heard from many of you that you would like to have a better way to organize your growing Kindle libraries. We are currently working on a solution that will allow you to ...
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That’s what Karen Christensen says. She’s an academic publisher and author and co-editor of the forthcoming book The Business of Sustainability. According to her :
… the debate around green issues behind producing books had so far largely ignored the “vast” ...
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The Sony eBookStore shown here has been around for a few years for Sony Reader owners.
But now comes word from BusinessWeek that Sony will also sell e-books elsewhere—in the new Sony Online Store, the current name.
This one will sell e-books along with music, movies and downloadable ...
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I put the name in quotes because Harlequin has announced that it changing the name of its new venture effective immediately. According to a press release authors expressed concern that the original name would cause confusion between this venture and Harlequin’s traditional publishing ...
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The court has given preliminary approval and the following dates are of interest:
December 14: supplemental notices about the amended agreement to be sent
January 28: objections to amended agreement be filed with the court
January 28: opt in date for those members of the class who had ...
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David Pogue’s latest column in the New York Times concerns the new Palm Pixi, the Pre’s precocious kid sister. The official price is $100 with a 2-year Sprint contract, but Amazon is selling it for $25—plus $2,309 in monthly fees over the course of the contract.
The phone is tiny, light, ...
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From the Smashwords press release :
Los Gatos, Calif. and Wellington, New Zealand – November 19, 2009 — Silicon Valley based Smashwords, Inc. has acquired Wellington New Zealand company BookHabit Limited, consolidating Smashwords’ position as the world’s premier ebook ...
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I just got it from Amazon at $7.99 for my Kindle and I understand that it has been released on the Sony platform as well.
Eoin Purcell raises an interesting question in his blog :
But riddle me this?
Why do they not just sell it direct? The multi-publisher bookstore provides just the ...
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Photo Note: My auto-focus digital camera had a little trouble getting good shots of the screen; no matter what I do, the shots tend to turn out slightly off-focus. The shots may look blurry, but suffice it to say that’s a problem with my camera—in person, the reader is quite as crisp and ...
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AudioLark , who hopes to go live in March of next year, is a new romance audio book publisher. The innovative thing about them is that their selections will be priced at $4.99, $7.99 or $12.99, which is way bellow the typical $35 audio book price.
AudioLark is being run by Jennifer ...
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The successor to Nokia’s line of internet tablets is now available on pre-order through Nokia’s website and through Amazon and others. The list price is $649, but Amazon is selling ti for $560 after a $50 rebate.
This is one of the most eagerly awaited devices of the year, with ...
