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• Vooks Will Crush eBooks

  
  Thom Allen Weblog — Authority: 110
  I paid for and downloaded my first Vook , Crush It! , an ebook with embeded digital media, like videos. The funny thing is I already own the physical Crush It! book, and have read it twice. But the added value of watching videos from Gary Vanerchuk, which gives the book enormous value. I would really like to see ...
  22 hours ago

• Twitter a flop as a book promoter? Or just a failure with SOME books?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Electric Literature micro-serialized a Rick Moody story on Twitter and sent it to other feeds. Vroman’s Bookstore cut out the pickup after some readers objected.  Now a Vroman’s blog item is asking if Twitter really helps sell books. Or are book-biz people mainly tweeting to themselves? So far, I ...
  22 hours ago

• NY Times on smartphone e-reading apps

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Found via tweet from @Hadrien : The New York Times has a brief article profiling several of the e-book reading choices available for the iPhone and other smartphones: Kindle, Aldiko (for Android), Barnes & Noble eReader, Shortcovers, and Stanza. While they do only mention the Barnes & Noble version of ...
  1 day ago

• $149 for color e-book reader—but it’s lame and reads only .txt format

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  For a good laugh, probably nothing more, check out the $149 Sungale 7” Color eBook Reader and Portable Photo Album with Case , at Newegg.com . It reads only .txt format, and one shopper-reviewer says: “You can’t get any lamer for an ebook reader.” 100 percent of the two reviews posted on Newegg are ...
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• Wired’s E-reader gift guide

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Wired has a buying guide looking at e-readers as possible Christmas gifts. While it is not super-detailed, it does provide a decent grounding in the basic features and issues associated with e-book readers and even discusses alternatives to full-fledged reading devices such as the iPhone. There are a couple of ...
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• Make free Gutenberg e-books easier to download for Kindle owners—and others with mobile devices

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Kindle owners can download free public domain books  directly at FreeKindleBooks.org , as I noted here recently. Why spend $1 and maybe even several dollars at Amazon for plain old public domain books that often are just the same titles with price tags added? Now Project Gutenberg volunteer Jim Adcock is ...
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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 ...
  2 days ago

• Forrester Research’s 10 ebook/ereader predictions for 2010

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Paid Content has an article from Forrester Research with the following predictions. In the article each prediction is accompanied by a narrative explanation: E-ink will lose its near-100% market share Deal-screen mobile phones and netbooks will eat into ereader demand Apps will make non-reading devices more ebook ...
  2 days ago

• Nook e-reader could explode in B&N’s face if delays persist: No Nook so far for Don Smith despite early order

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Would you believe, the word “nook” isn’t just associated with small spaces, anatomy, children’s literature, a land measure, or the Nook e-reader from Barnes & Noble. The Donna Nook , a UK fishing trawler, served during World War II as a mine sweeper. But could the oh-so-forthcoming e-reader be ...
  3 days ago

• Canadian journalists bemoan limited Kindle offerings up North: Where’s Michael Crichton’s latest? Stephen King’s?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Canadian journalists are joining TeleRead community members and other e-book-lovers in complaining about Amazon’s sparse offerings up North—at least when it comes to best-sellers.   Jesse Michaels , finance and tech editor for Canoe.ca, writes : “Sure, Amazon says Canada (and most other countries) has access ...
  3 days ago

• E-reader battery time to get boost from PRAM memory tech?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  The battery time of some mobile phones could eventually go up by more than 20 percent thanks to the lower power requirements of PRAM (used as a substitute for flash memory ). In fact, Samsung is among the companies hoping to make smart phones with the new tech. The technology also writes and rewrites the ...
  3 days ago

• Amazon: November has been best month for Kindle sales

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  B&N’s Nook and Sony’s new wireless e-reader have yet to make it to the stores . But guess what is available, got a recent software upgrade and probably would be doing well anyway because of the number of books available for it and the growth of e-books in general. Surprise of surprise, Amazon says this ...
  4 days ago

• Barnes & Noble delays Nook shipment to stores

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Earlier this month, when I called into the Barnes & Noble here in Springfield and when I stopped into one in the St. Louis metro area to check, I had been told that there should be Nooks in the Barnes & Noble stores by the end of the month, and I was hoping to get my hands on one to investigate. However, it ...
  4 days ago

• Smartbook AG launches absolutely gaudy $3,000 Swarovski-laden netbook

  
  F-Default — Authority: 469
      Taking a break from making headlines over infringement rights , Smartbook AG has found an entirely new way to get our attention. Introducing the Zenid GC Crystal, a “smartbook” that’s, as Netbooknews.de points out, one of the most common Chinese ODM netbooks, the S40 — 10.2-inch WXGA LED screen, ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Too many books, not enough profits’: ‘On the Media’ looks at the book biz, including E

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  The On the Media public radio show looks this week at the “past, present and future of books” —a full update of an earlier show from a year ago . Among the points made: “too many books, not enough profits.” Half a million books, by one estimate, are appearing on the U.S. annually. Fueled by new ...
  4 days ago

• ‘Largest’ digi library in China to be built—plus almost three million e-readers expected there in 2010

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Could Google’s book-digitization drive be up against a Great Wall of copyright in China—a rather porous one through which local rivals can easily slip? The Chinese say Google didn’t seek proper authorization. Still, isn’t it interesting that just after Google ran up against opposition to scanning some 18,000 ...
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• Will textbooks be the biggest e-reader market in five years?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  ";" alt="" /> So predicts Sarah Epps at Forrester Research . I have mixed feelings about this. Given a choice of only one portable device for students, I’d rather they get netbooks (or larger laptops) that could double as tablets. Hey, we want students to write, too, and beyond that, the current E ...
  5 days ago

• ‘The man behind the Netbook craze’: E-books next on tap

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Jonney Shih, the billionaire chairman of Asus , gets a write-up in Fortune for pioneering the netbook , which, of course, springs from the One Laptop Per Child project . OLPC receives nary a syllable of mention. But certainly Fortune seems on the money in giving Shih credit for major commercialization of the ...
  5 days ago

• Flexible e-reader screens with touch capability: Drawing and notes seen possible

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute has shown off some new flexible display screen technologies . One is a 4.1-inch color OLED screen pictured here. OLED does away with the need for a polarizer or stacks of optical film. For an e-reader, however, OLED is still a bit of a problem because all the ...
  5 days ago

• Freebies in e-stores: Shortcovers prez likes ‘em—within reason

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 645
  Don’t give away your whole book for free. That’s what Ficbot warned new authors yesterday, and I agree. Generous samples are cool. Same for onscreen viewing of the complete book, as opposed to actual freebies of the full files. But should a writer offer a free download of the whole bleepin’ book if it ...
  5 days ago

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