Publishing NewsAmazon / cloud computing / Kindle / Valve8 Comments
Why Valve’s SteamOS Could Be Revolutionary – Information Weeks posits that Steam OS may be the next entertainment platform. Valve, the parent company of Steam, pioneered ownership of digital products by assigning each digital product a unique ID and then allowing the resale of digital products by the resale of ... more >
Publishing News3D Printing / Barnes & Noble / cloud computing8 Comments
How Barnes & Noble Overlooks Its Biggest Asset – Forbes suggests Barnes & Noble become a showroom for internet companies such as the high end fashion coops like Gilt Groupe to hand crafted items from Etsy sellers. It’s not a bad idea in concept but could easily become on of ... more >
Publishing Newscloud computing / ebook software / Privacy-issues13 Comments
Randi Zuckerberg Is Just as Confused by Facebook Privacy as You Are – Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, generally believes people should live their private lives publicly or at least that is how he runs Facebook with the privacy settings constantly changing and always requiring an opt in action by ... more >
Publishing NewsAgency pricing / Amazon / cloud computing / lawsuits / piracy32 Comments
Exclusive: Amazon phone confirmed, could be announced tomorrow – Today is Amazon’s day to announce new products. Woo woo. (Apple will announce a new iPhone in September and reportedly a mini iPad in October. BN is said to announce new products at the end of the month). While most reports ... more >
Publishing NewsAgency pricing / cloud computing / lawsuits / Recommended Reads25 Comments
Booklamp.org is up and running. Booklamp professes to be a Pandora for books. It does not have much content for romances. It looks to be publisher specific. Random House and Simon & Schuster have books and authors present but Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette do not. Harlequin also seems absent. ... more >
EbooksCalibre / cloud computing / iPhone / Stanza224 Comments
This post has been updated as of October 16, 2011. ***** Apple appears to have pushed Google out of the ebookstore. Kobo released an updated app with no buy link. Google is randomly deleting Google Plus accounts. Yet another ebook format has been announced. I’m getting pretty fed up ... more >