Archive for the 'E-Books' Category
Sony’s Digital Book Downloads from the Public Library
November 17th, 2009BusinessWeek – “My 11-year-old son had a dilemma last night. He had zipped through the first two books in the Twilight series and was keen to start on the third, Eclipse. But the book my wife quickly picked up at the library was in Spanish. Oops. So we tried an experiment. Two weeks ago, [...]
HP, UMich deal means a “real” future for scanned books
October 25th, 2009Ars Technica – “HP and the University of Michigan have inked a deal that will see HP reprinting rare and out-of-print books from Michigan’s library via the printer maker’s print-on-demand service. Here’s why this is potentially as important as anything Google Books is doing.”
Apple Lurks as Kindle, Nook Squeeze Out Sony
October 24th, 2009Rich Jaroslovsky – “Everyone from desperate publishers to techno-lusting consumers knows what an e-reader should be: a thin, light, affordable tablet with a bright color touch screen, decent battery life and fast wireless access to books, magazines, newspapers and work documents.”
Click by Click, Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
October 14th, 2009NYT – “Kate Lambert recalls using her library card just once or twice throughout her childhood. Now, she uses it several times a month. The lure? Electronic books she can download to her laptop. Beginning earlier this year, Ms. Lambert, a 19-year-old community college student in New Port Richey, Fla., borrowed volumes in the “Hitchhiker’s [...]
Texting? No, Just Trying to Read Chapter 6
September 5th, 2009NYTimes – “In our digital age, miniaturization rules. This is a welcome thing — in most cases. Squeezing two billion transistors onto a small chip? All good. Squeezing an enormous printed textbook down to iPhone-size? Not so good.”
Sony Reader Devices Can Now Borrow E-Books From Libraries
August 26th, 2009The Wired Campus – “The new feature involves a service by a company called OverDrive Inc., which distributes electronic books to about 9,000 libraries, about 100 of which are academic libraries.Now libraries that use the OverDrive service will give patrons the option of downloading the e-books to their Sony Readers. A few weeks after a [...]
Why free ebooks should be part of the plot for writers
August 18th, 2009Cory Doctorow – “I don’t think we can stop others from copying – it’s a lost cause. Copying is actually wonderful, and I have copied my head off since I first snuck into the photocopy room at my dad’s office in 1980. My problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity, and free ebooks generate more sales than [...]
Sony to support open ebook forma
August 14th, 2009BBC – “The electronics giant said it would stop using a proprietary standard in favour of the ePub open format. Sony said it would have its store converted to the format by the end of 2009. Most Sony Readers can already handle books in the ePub format.”
Sony officially unveils new Readers, drops price of e-books
August 4th, 2009CNET – “After enduring a couple of rumors and leaks that took the lid off its latest e-readers a little earlier than it would have liked, Sony’s officially announced the two new models: the Reader Pocket Edition ($199) and Reader Touch Edition ($299), both of which will hit stores at the end of the month. [...]
1 Million Books
July 29th, 2009Sony Electronics Blog – "You said you wanted more books and we heard you. Our free public domain content offering from Google has now surpassed the 1 million title mark." (via)
More here
Libraries, eBooks, and the Mobile Web: A Long Ways to Go
June 22nd, 2009Read/Write/Web – “According to a new report from Cambridge University (PDF), students aren’t interested in being able to read eBooks and eJournals on their mobile phones. Instead, users are far more interested in opening hours, location maps, contact info, and access to the library catalog. Most respondents were also far more interested in getting alerts [...]
Internet Archive Book Reader
June 19th, 2009Internet News – “Internet Archive has a new reader interface for its books”
Ebooks battle for next chapter
April 22nd, 2009The Guardian – “The clear message from this week's London Book Fair was that UK publishing and retailing are finally ready to embrace the ebook. But don't dump your bookshelves yet. Before the ebook can really challenge its paper equivalent, the industry has to avert a format war a whole lot more complicated than VHS [...]
Eyeing ‘e-books’ for future law students
September 22nd, 2008NLJ – “Law professors and publishing executives plan to meet later this month in Seattle to discuss how legal casebooks could be made available electronically on a widespread basis, particularly on new handheld devices such as Kindle and Sony Reader Digital Book.”
‘In praise of shyness’: The e-book angle
January 20th, 2008Great piece by David Rothman.
Sharing
January 6th, 2008Collections 2.0 – “On what planet is it UNacceptable for me to buy a book, read it, and then hand it to my wife so she can read it?”
Hahvard’s New Directah
November 1st, 2007David Rothman has some info.
eBooks Making a Comeback?
September 14th, 2007Tony Glover – “Harry Potter and his wizarding chums may be about to make a digital publishing leap. Online bookseller Amazon has plans to unveil a wireless electronic book reader, a kind of literary iPod, which already has UK publishers scrambling to digitize their entire range of titles. The device, which sources claim could be [...]
Print Is Dead. The Book.
September 11th, 2007Jeff Gomez – “Last week I received the first copy of Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age, from my editor in the UK.”
More on ebooks
August 29th, 2007BusinessWeek – “Nearly 10 Months After its debut, the Sony Reader is hardly a game changer.”
E-books – Fiction
August 12th, 2007David Rothman Isabelle Fetherston – “Why libraries should offer popular fiction—in both print and e-book formats.”
