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• Amazon’s Kindle winning battle, but Adobe poised to win e-book war

  
  sparkplug 9 — Authority: 123
  A total of 30 e-book readers rely on Adobe software, including Barnes & Noble’s just-debuted, already-delayed Nook and Sony’s popular Sony Readers, according to Nick Bogaty, senior business development manager for digital publishing at Adobe.Both PDF and ePub are open industry standards, though the optional ...
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• ‘Next big thing’ in e-books? Kurzweil’s new e-book software is going out the gate with at least 180K titles committed to it:

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  We told you this was coming. Inventor Ray Kurzweil (photo) said in October that his new blind-friendly software could handle text to speech as well as ePub and PDF formats . Kurzeil is involved with knfbReading Technology , a partnership with the National Federation of the Blind. So there could be more than hype ...
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• Should parents control their kids e-reading? And if so, should the Kindle e-store and others include ‘child’ accounts?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Should parents restrict their children’s e-reading? And if so, should the Kindle e-bookstore and others include restricted “child” accounts, so Junior can’t read the same saucy best-seller that his father is? Nonparents, not just people with kids, should care about these issues. If Kindle-type stores cannot ...
  1 week ago

• ‘Story’ e-reader from iRiver goes on sale in the U.K. for £229

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  The basic Story e-reader from iRiver is on sale in the United Kingdom for £229 . Specs: —Optional touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. –Six-inch E Ink screen with 600-by-800 resolution and grayscale. –ePub, PDF, TXT, Office .doc, PPT, XLS. Plays MP3, WMA and OGG audio and shows JPEG, BMP and GIF. ...
  1 week ago

• New: Aussie e-book shop. Gone: Ebooksabouteverything

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  An e-book shop will open on Dec. 1 for Australia — Read without Paper —and will sell both international and local authors. Supposedly prices will be comparable to those of U.S.-based stores: let’s see. The publicity says that “ Over 110,000 Fiction & Non-Fiction Titles” will be be available, including ...
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• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  1 week ago

• Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide: Field Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems, ePub (Kindle Edition)

  
  COMPUTER TROUBLESHOOTING — Authority: 134
  This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version. Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide Field-Tested Solutions for Everyday Problems , Second Edition Neal Allen   The 100% practical, real-world guide to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two ‘musts’ for the next Kindle upgrade: ePub and optional boldfacing of all text

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Amazon’s most recent Kindle upgrade is working fine now on my Kindle 2—allowing me to read PDF files, even if I can’t  blow up the type. Amazon has also lengthened the K2’s battery life, which should help when I’m using the Kindle’s much-appreciated text to speech . What’s next? ePub ? Maybe even ...
  2 weeks ago

• About that ePub logo, Mike: A friendly jog for the IDPF

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Ugh, it’s time to broach the topic again. Why the devil doesn’t the International Digital Publishing Forum have an ePub logo so its format standard can compete better against the Kindle’s? The IDPF said it would unveil a contest for the best logo design, but I haven’t seen a follow-up. I’ve emailed ...
  2 weeks ago

• Aldiko Book Reader

  
  Android Tapp — Authority: 510
  Aldiko Book Reader  allows you to download and read thousands of books right on your Android phone. Anywhere. Anytime. Browse extensive catalogs of ebooks (most of them FREE) and download them from inside the app. Comfortable and highly customizable reading experience (font/background color, font type, margin, night ...
  2 weeks ago

• Two weeks with an Astak 5”: Formats and shortcomings

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  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 clear as printed text. ...
  2 weeks ago

• ‘Run Kindle for PC in Linux with Wine’

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Too bad Amazon isn’t doing nonDRMed ePub to make it easier for books to be read across a number of platforms. But if you use a Linux desktop and are sufficiently adventuresome, yes, you can use the Wine Windows simulator to run Kindle for PC. Details at Lifehacker . Anyone care to tell how the tip there ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wireless Sony e-reader ready for preorder tomorrow—and meanwhile the Sony PRS-500 firmware update is out

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Beginning November 18, tomorrow, you can preorder the $399 Sony Reader Daily Edition , the one with a 7.1-inch E Ink screen and 3G wireless from AT&T in the U.S. So reports TechFlash in Eric Engleman’s Q&A with Steve Haber, president of the Sony digital reading division . The Daily Edition, last we ...
  3 weeks ago

• Experiment: Advancing ePub with HTML5 Video’s

  
  epubBooks Blog — Authority: 92
  There are a number of people in the eBook world who really know their ePub format – luckily for us they enjoy sharing this knowledge among the community. One of these such people is Bookworm developer, Liza Daly. There’s a lot of a misconception around the ePub format with the belief that it is not a very advance ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sony, B&N better on DRM than Amazon—but still a long way from perfection

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Sony, B&N promise to rekindle rights for book owners is the headline on a Boing Boing posting from Rob Beschizza. Without doubt, Sony’s Steve Haber and Adobe’s Bill McCoy have been more sensible on DRM than Amazon, with more flexible approaches. I applaud their efforts. But we’re a long way from ...
  3 weeks ago

• DRMfree publishers: Help Liza Daly expand her list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Liza Daly , a TeleRead contributor, has compiled a list of DRM free publishers such as O’Reilly and Drollerie . Help out “Liza’s List,” as I’ll call it—a kind of a Good Housekeeping seal of approval in the technical sense. Send her names to add. The definition of DRMfree can be tricky. I’d ...
  4 weeks ago

• Free web-based ePub validator

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Threepress Consulting has a free, web-based ePub validator. You upload a DRM-free document and validate it against epubcheck 1.0.3 and epubprefilight 0.1.0. After it’s validated you can use thier Bookworm ePub reader to check it. Epubpreflight has been updated and now checks or content files that are empty or ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lulu Adds E-Books

  
  Family Matters — Authority: 122
  In addition to publishing printed books in any number of sizes and bindings, Lulu has always included a PDF download option. Now, you can also offer your publications in e-book format which offers both multi-device support (iPhone using Stanza, Sony, PC, Mac and more) and digital rights management (copy protection). ...
  5 weeks ago

• Lulu now sells EPUB

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Received this email from Paul Durrant and it should be of interest to anyone who is self-publishing: The subject is the news. Lulu now allows upload and sale of ePubs. DRM is optional. Lulu have revised their prices. Lulu used to sell PDFs on a straight 20% margin. Lulu now sell both PDFs and ePubs on the basis of ...
  5 weeks ago

• EPUB reader add-on for Firefox

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  I received the following email from Michael Volz. I’m on a Mac and the add-on won’t install in the Mac version of Firefox so I can’t report how it works. If anyone tries it, let us know. It’s available here . Hello Paul, I’m contacting you, because I’d like to inform you about a new free Firefox addon ...
  5 weeks ago

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