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March 20, 2014

Thursday News: Sony Reader Store closes today in US & Canada, new Sony reader for sale, author Kevin Trudeau sentenced for fraud, and the genius of goggly eye books

JanetPublishing NewsEbooks / ereader / fraud / FTC / Kobo / Sony6 Comments

The Future of Reader Store in the US & Canada – Just a reminder that for US and Canadian customers, the Sony Reader Store closes permanently today, March 20, at 6 pm EST. If you have a Reader Store account, it will automatically transferred to Kobo, unless you choose to ... more >

February 10, 2014

Monday News: Sony’s future, focus groups and creativity, copyright v. revenge porn, and a provocative South African ad

JanetPublishing Newscopyright / focus groups / literacy / online harassment / Sony20 Comments

Sony to axe 5,000 jobs and sell Vaio unit – One more story on Sony, this one on the company’s plans to stop manufacturing its VAIO PC and to cut its “global workforce” by 5,000 jobs over the next year. With anticipated losses of more than $1 billion for the ... more >

Kobo App
February 7, 2014

Friday News: A Tale of Sony and Kobo

JanetPublishing NewsAdobe / Australia / Canada / DRM / epub / Kobo / Rakuten / Sony / Sony Reader Store / UK / US26 Comments

Sony abandons North American eBook stores – You have have heard by now (perhaps by email, if you are a Sony Reader Store customer), that Sony is closing down its US and Canadian Reader Stores. However, in other parts of the world, Sony is still in operation, with no immediate ... more >

oyster
September 6, 2013

Friday News: Sign up at a data collecting company to find out what data they are collecting about you and other news

JanePublishing Newseink / Paypal / privacy / Sony / subscriptions15 Comments

Acxiom gives you a peek at the data it collects about you – So remember the stories about how Target can send a different mailer to you than it does to your neighbor based upon all the little footprints you leave in their store and on the internet? One of ... more >

November 7, 2012

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

JaneUncategorizedAgency pricing / Britney-Spears / celebrity / ebook software / Sony8 Comments

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 ... more >

Lose a boat?
October 31, 2012

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

JanePublishing NewsAmazon / paid reviews / Sony6 Comments

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. ... more >

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