Sony

Wednesday News: Sony Reader releases its iOS App; Britney Spears fiction; Amazon Prime goes monthly; EU to end Agency

Wednesday News: Sony Reader releases its iOS App; Britney Spears fiction; Amazon Prime goes monthly; EU to end Agency

Sony brings Reader software and bookstore to iOS platform | ZDNet – Sony launches its Reader software for iThings. It might be one of the best OS reading apps available for ePub. You can read Adobe DRM’ed ePubs (and PDFs) along with non encrypted ePubs and PDFs.  You can create your own collections as well.(…)

Wednesday News: How to help the Sandy victims; Amazing Sandy pics; Indies cry foul over Amazon review deletion

Wednesday News: How to help the Sandy victims; Amazing Sandy pics; Indies cry foul over Amazon review deletion

Disaster Relief, CPR Certification, Donate Blood – Hurricane Sandy has devastated communities from Haiti (that had not yet recovered from the earthquake) to Canada, but much of its devastation was on the eastern seaboard. The RedCross is asking for monetary donations and has indicated that its blood bank is low. You can text the word(…)

Monday News:  New Sony Reader, More on Kindle Lending, Shifting Book Buyer Demographics

Monday News: New Sony Reader, More on Kindle Lending, Shifting Book Buyer Demographics

I’m still trying to perfect the presentation of the news. To make it easier to read, I’ve included my commentary after the link and blockquoted the portion of the article that I am quoting. Let me know if that is easier to read. Also, at the request of a couple readers, I’ve inserted “target=”_blank” to(…)

Thursday Midday Links: LinkedIn passwords hacked, HBO direct to consumer not likely

Thursday Midday Links: LinkedIn passwords hacked, HBO direct to consumer not likely

8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (updated) | Ars Technica – “An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and a separate, popular dating website. … The massive dumps over the past three days came in postings to user(…)

Thursday Midday Links: eBooks 20% of the Market?

Thursday Midday Links: eBooks 20% of the Market?

Barnes & Noble reports that the majority of its ebook sales are agency priced books (which feeds nicely into my Sunday article about how the biggest winner of agency pricing was BN).   BN announced its quarterly results two days ago.  Total sales are up 2% to $1.4billion, driven by large increases at bn.com as(…)

Thursday Midday News: Mr Romance Is Done

Thursday Midday News: Mr Romance Is Done

Google has partnered with iRiver to introduce a new ebook reader to the market.  This will be sold at Target and online.  PC World has a really good review of the device.  The pro of the device is that it has the crispest screen of any eink device on the market.  The cons? Poor software(…)

Reading with Android: Sony

Sony has at long last followed Amazon, B&N, Borders and Kobo and released a reading app for the Android platform.   Was it worth the wait?   Upon opening the app you are presented with the >>˜Home’ screen.   At the top of the screen you’ll see your most recently opened book.   Below that is >>˜Books’ which(…)

Notes About the 2010 Sony Readers

Notes About the 2010 Sony Readers

I don’t have the 2010 Sony Readers, but I am getting questions about them and so I’ll share with you the information I’ve gathered from the around the internet. The new Sony Readers come in three flavors: Pocket Edition – 5″ screen, 2GB memory Touch Edition – 6″ screen, 2 GB memory with SD slot(…)

Monday Midday Links:  Sony Drops eBook Reader Prices

Monday Midday Links: Sony Drops eBook Reader Prices

Bonds of Justice by Nalini Singh is available at Kobo Books for $5.49. I’m not sure how they are discounting it and no one else is but who am I to question a decent price for a much desired book? ***** To celebrate the release of MOUSE AND DRAGON, their thirteenth Liaden Universe novel, Sharon(…)

Dear Jane: How do the different eReading devices handle notes?

Dear Jane: How do the different eReading devices handle notes?

Dear Jane: I read epub ebooks on my iPhone using Stanza, having transferred them over using Calibre. Recently I read a book where I made a lot of annotations. I want to know if it is possible to get that book and the annotations back off the phone and onto my computer. I prefer to(…)

Dear Jane: Can I Read Books Bought at the Sony Store on the Nook and Vice Versa

Dear Jane: Can I Read Books Bought at the Sony Store on the Nook and Vice Versa

Welcome to Dear Jane, a weekly column based upon reader mailbag questions on anything relating to ebooks. No question is too simple or too mundane. We are all learning together. Send your questions to jane @ dearauthor.com with “Dear Jane” in the subject matter. Dear Jane: I have the opportunity to purchase a Sony PRS-300(…)

Thursday Midday Links: Orbit to Publish Digital Shorts

Orbit, the publisher of books like Soulless and Changelessby Gail Carriger along with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin, has just announced that it will digitally publish short fiction in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. There are not many publishers providing digital fiction in the SFF area other than Baen and Drollerie(…)

Friday Midday Links: Steve Jobs Claims Publishers to Punish Amazon

Steve Jobs was interviewed by Walt Mossberg after the iPad event. (I cringe everytime I have to write iPad. Maybe I’ll just call it iSlate). Jobs states that he believes the prices in the iBookstore will match other prices online and that publishers will be withholding books from Amazon, presumably because of Amazon’s $9.99 price(…)

Sony Reader Pocket Edition Winners

To introduce the readers to Sony’s new social media site for booklovers called Words Move Me, Sony helped us sponsor a giveaway for two Sony Reader Pocket Editions. We had over 330+ commenters leave their favorite book quote. I plan to several of these to my widget and encourage you to start your own widgets.(…)

REVIEW: Sony Reader Touch Edition

REVIEW: Sony Reader Touch Edition

Sony sent me the Sony Reader Pocket and Touch Editions for review. I’ve had the devices for little over three weeks and they will be winging their way to another reviewer tomorrow. You can read my review of the Pocket Edition here. I have the Sony Reader PRS 700 which was a touchscreen and integrated(…)