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• Amazon woos lit agents worried about e-books undermining p-books

  
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  Issues such as prices and delayed publication of e-books came up in the discussions. Did text to speech, too? See Crain’s and The Bookseller for known details. Image is from Wikipedia . Related: E-books and P: How will publishers adjust to smaller market for print books? Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook ...
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• Quick test drive: Kindle for PC looks promising—but is no match for Mobipocket in flexibility. And how about ePub?

  
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  I’ve just test-driven a beta of Kindle for PC software (download here ). It’s very promising, but not nearly as usable for me as Mobipocket, which lets me tweak things just so . You can’t get a double-page view in KFPC, for instance, which would have been nice on my 25-inch monitor. And while you can ...
  5 hours ago

• Harlequin launches digital-only publishing house: E-books, short stories, other content—and not just romance

  
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  Best of luck to the new Carina Press. But why does the home page show a typewriter-looking gizmo to direct people to the site’s information for writers ? Of special interest: The well-regarded Angela James as exec editor. She earlier was with the Quartet Press startup. I’m curious if the Quartet shut down ...
  1 day ago

• GetJar: Almost 57,000 cellphone apps, including the e-book variety

  
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  Getjar has nearly 57,000 apps for cellphones—more than any rival other than the iPhone app store. eReader and Wattpad were among those I found when I searched under ebooks , as well as the Libris app with access to the Feedbooks collection. Alas, not all the apps are up to date. Getjar lists a 2008 ...
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• E-books and P: How will publishers adjust to smaller markets for print books?

  
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  Doubt that e-books are a disruptive technology? How about this warning from Mike Shatzkin at the Idea Logical Company ? This might not be exactly a “tipping point”, since that implies a point at which growth accelerates from some people to most people, or nearly all people. But print publishing will be ...
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• 2nd gen e-book machine dropped by OLPC—but group will do a paperlike 3rd gen device

  
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  One Laptop Per Chlld has “ scrapped plans unveiled in May 2008 for an e-book-like second-generation XO laptop , instead focusing on an upgraded version of the current XO and designs for a ‘3.0’ version of the device that will be ‘more like a sheet of paper.’ So reports Xconomy . Photo shows the dropped ...
  2 days ago

• Freda program reads ePub, TXT and HTML on Windows Mobile 5 and 6 machines

  
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  The new Freda program reads nonDRMed ePub, TXT and HTML and lets you customize fonts and colors. Check out the details and get the free download here .A special version exists for Windows Mobile 6 users who encounter stability problems.  (Via MobileRead ). Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. ...
  3 days ago

• E-book hardware bargains for the holidays: Share your finds, whenever you spot ‘em

  
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  Tell other TeleRead community members when you spot e-book-related products steeply discounted. Some holiday bargains—although I didn’t spot an e-book one—are already online . Black Friday is officially the Friday after Thanksgiving, and Cyber Monday is the first Monday after BF. Related: Internetnews ...
  3 days ago

• eSlick Foxit reader gets new firmware with ePub and eReader

  
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  eSlick’s Foxit reader will now be able to read at least nonDRMed ePub and eReader (PDB), not just PDF and TXT. I’m not sure about the ability in regard to DRMed books: perhaps someone can enlighten us. I’m skeptical. Beyond more formats, Foxit now includes the ability to organize your book into folders—and ...
  3 days ago

• Droid smartphone launch: Better for e-booking than the iPhone, especially as more apps show up?

  
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  The Motorola Droid smartphone is out now, complete with a keyboard and a 3.7-inch touch screen, which is slightly bigger than the iPhone’s 3.5 incher and has much better resolution. Remember, Roger Sperberg is pretty excited about resolution in the new Android devices . But how about e-book software for ...
  3 days ago

• Bookless libraries?

  
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  When does a library cease to be a library? This was the central point of a debate about the fate of educational institutions’ brick-and-mortar libraries at the 2009 Educause Conference in Denver, as reported by Inside Higher Ed . Despite the objections of “a minority of very loud faculty members,” (Suzanne ...
  3 days ago

• E-reader market no more than 25M units at current prices? Plus other stats—and Sony Readers vs. p-books as pick-up bait in bars

  
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  The e-reader market will be no more than 25 million at present prices, according to Sarah Rotman Epps, a senior analyst at Forrester Research whom the Washington Post quotes today. Ah, but won’t costs drop a lot in the next year or so? So who typically buys dedicated e-readers right now? “…a 47-year-old ...
  5 days ago

• Rupert Murdoch knocks the Kindle as a news reader—even though the Wall Street Journal is now on the K machine

  
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  News Corporation gets only $6-%6.50 of the %15 that Kindle subscribers pay for the Wall Street Journal each month , and News CEO Rupert Murdoch is POed. He’s looking forward to “half a dozen readers” in time, with deals possible for them—presumably with Murdoch’s people enjoying full access to subscriber ...
  5 days ago

• $89 e-reader can display zillions of books from Google, Feedbooks, Manybooks and Gutenberg—aided by Calibre

  
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  Just in case you haven’t noticed, eBookwise is selling the model 1150 for just $89.95 and shipping (as little as $10 in the U.S.) . It includes 64Mb of internal memory. You don’t have as many DRMed commercial books to choose from as with more modern readers, and the display is an LCD, not E Ink. But thanks to ...
  6 days ago

• ‘Darn it, Santa, I want to watch my parents’ budget!’ A few words on teens, e-books and affordable prices and all that

  
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  Darn It, Santa, I said Leave a BOOK Under the Tree, NOT an E-Ebook is the catchy headline in Richard Curtis’s E-Reads blog . He quotes from a survey, What Do Teens Want? —the results of which appeared in Publishers Weekly : When we asked about their affection for a digital reading device for fun reading ...
  6 days ago

• You can fight for your country but not buy an e-book?

  
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  That is the situation one soldier finds himself in, according to this MobileRead thread . A US soldier stationed in Iraq has discovered he cannot buy e-books from Sony for his PRS-600 because he is overseas—even though he has a US mailing address and credit card. He pasted a transcript from his contact with Sony ...
  6 days ago

• When Kindle e-reading apps show up on better handheld displays, will the iPhone seem quite so hot?

  
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  The iPhone/iPod Touch have had the advantage of being the sole handheld devices with an e-reader that could access Amazon’s e-list. That will soon change. The Windows UMPC will be able to run the Kindle e-reader. Also, Amazon will move the software to new Android and Maemo devices with significantly higher ...
  1 week ago

• Apple focused on videos—rather than books—for rumored tablet?

  
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  That’s the latest scuttlebutt . If the widely reported rumors are true, at least they’d jibe with Steve Jobs’ sttement that people don’t read. Some say the rumors could also show that Apple believes the book biz is broken, which, of course, it is. Or maybe the rumors are just an Apple disinformation ...
  1 week ago

• Apple focused on videos—rather than books—on rumored tablet?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  That’s the latest scuttlebutt . If the widely reported rumors are true, at least they’d jibe with Steve Jobs’ sttement that people don’t read. Some say the rumors could also show that Apple believes the book biz is broken, which, of course, it is. Or maybe the rumors are just an Apple disinformation ...
  1 week ago

• Apple focused on videos—rather than books—on rumored tablet?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 662
  That’s the latest scuttlebutt . If the widely reported rumors are true, at least they’d jibe with Steve Jobs’ belief that people don’t read. Some say the rumors could also show that Apple believes the book biz is broken, which, of course, it is. Or maybe the rumors are just an Apple disinformation ...
  1 week ago

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