Oct 26 2009
Mobile adoption is occurring at a faster rate than any other adoption of internet in the past. Further, at the leading edge of mobile adoption is the growth of the iPhone/iTouch market. Morgan Stanley is essentially telling investors that those that can anticipate and deliver products to the mobile space are those who will be(…)
Aug 16 2009
If you are a reader with over a couple hundred books in Calibre, it is fairly difficult to navigate, particularly if you are using Stanza. To make Calibre’s library more accessible via the internet (and thus via Stanza), a wonderful programmer shared this script on MobileRead. Essentially, the script looks at the database of Calibre(…)
Jun 25 2009
If you were reading around the blogosphere, you would have noticed the allegations of plagiarism against Chris Anderson, editor of Wired and author of The Long Tail. Also in the plagiarism news is the suit filed against Elisabeth Hasselbeck for her cookbook. TMZ obtained a letter that the attorney for Susan Hassett sent to Elisabeth’s(…)
Jun 22 2009
Keishon of AvidBookReader explains why the iPhone is her go to ereading device even though she owns and loves her Sony Reader. Intel hopes to have wireless power charging available in the next 18 months. As someone who lugs around three items that need to be charged at all times, I can only say that(…)
Mar 29 2009
I had a reader email me because she couldn’t get Stanza Desktop to work with her iTouch nor could she get Calibre to work with Stanza. After much trial and error on her part, she got both to work. She gave me permission to share these results so that if anyone else was having problems,(…)
Mar 4 2009
Kindle for the iPhone was released into the net during the wee morning hours. From the Home Screen, you can access the books you purchased at Amazon, but not any of the books you’ve sent to the Kindle. You can shop via the www.amazon.com/kindlestore on either a MAC or PC to buy Kindle books. You(…)
Jan 23 2009
Everyone but everyone is laying off people: Google, Sony, Microsoft, Intel, Motorola, and on and on. Almost 200,000 tech jobs lost since August 2008. Everyone is laying off, that is except for Apple who posted a record profit of $1.6 billion for the last quarter having sold 4.3M iPhones as well as a bunch of other Apple(…)
Jan 18 2009
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about a free program called Calibre. In the first post, we discussed what a great tool Calibre was for ebook management but the real beauty of Calibre is its iPhone/Sony Reader/Cybook interface. Calibre was first developed to assist Sony Reader users to add content to the device. Because(…)
Jan 16 2009
Is Richelle Mead and her Vampire Academy series the next Twilight phenomena? PW reports that the three books have a totle of 600,000 in print. Jia has read these books and likes them. Maybe she’ll do an omnibus review for us. David Carnoy, a journalist/editor at CNet, wrote a fiction book which NY publishing wouldn’t buy.(…)
Jan 15 2009
Six degrees of separation theory was a fraud. Stanley Milgram, a controversial psychologist, coined this term after asking “people to give a letter to other people they knew by name, then he tracked how long it took for each letter to end up in the hands of a person the original sender didn’t know in(…)
Jan 7 2009
Freedom to Tinker provides 2009 predictions which include netbook/larger iPhone at $899; civil lawsuits over violation of terms of service based on Lori Drew case; Obama administration prosecutions for large scale bittorrent abusers. Alpha Heroes wonders what is up with the animal-like genetalia. Rhev (the hero in JR Ward’s next book) is a sympath whose(…)
Jan 5 2009
On the one hand you have Scroll Motion trying to sell ebooks higher than the hardcover price. On the other, you have Orbit launching a rotating $1.00 ebook program. Each month, Orbit will offer one ebook for the big old price of $1.00. You can get this $1.00 ebook at virtually any ebookstore and in(…)
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