Google is getting deeper into the e-book market by partnering with device manufacturer iRiver on the upcoming “Story HD” e-book reader.
It’ll go on sale this Sunday at Target for $140 and it features a built-in Wi-Fi connection with content available for purchase through the Google eBookstore that was launched late last …
So. You got a blog. You want to turn it into a e-book, with a minimal amount of fuss and hard work.
You need Leanpub. It’s a new service for writers who want to do minimalist home-grown publishing on their own terms, in a variety of formats that will suit owners of iPads, Kindles, and other e-readers.
It’s also a completely new …
It was bound to happen, but no one really thought it’d happen this fast.
In a press release sent out this morning, online mega-seller Amazon announced that Kindle books are now outselling both paperback and hardcover books combined. It took a little over two years since the Kindle launched in 2007 to have its e-books outpace hardcovers,
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Eli Pariser is no enemy of the Internet. The 30-year-old online organizer is the former executive director and now board president of the online liberal political group MoveOn.org. But while Pariser understands the influence of the Internet, he also knows the power of online search engines and social networks to control exactly how we …
Get your summer reading list ready, a new books site, Bookish, will launch on Labor Day. The site promises to be part content, part retailer and part recommendation engine—a unique literary web cocktail.
Backed by publishing bigwigs like Simon & Schuster, the Hachette Book Group and Penguin—who envision this latest attempt to …
Steve’s official biography is coming. Entitled iSteve: The Book of Jobs, the tome is slated to hit bookshelves in early 2012. Biblical references aside, the manuscript, penned by Walter Isaacson, has been in the works since 2009.
The biography will contain interviews from Jobs’ family, colleagues and competitors. Most importantly, …
Throw away your iPad. Trash your Kindle. The future of reading is made of something far more innovative, and it’s called “paper.”
The flipback is, according to Patrick Kingsley at the UK Guardian, an ingenious new kind of printed book designed for the iGeneration. “Could this kill the Kindle?” the headlines asks. Err, no.
The pages …
Nobody likes layovers, especially long and boring ones. But if you happen to have a stopover at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport, you at least can rent an e-book to keep you company.
The library, which opened last week, features about 30 iPads and other devices that each offer 400 titles, as well as 2,000 physical Chinese and …
A. If the book in question is a library e-book from HarperCollins, you should be putting your money on Hershey’s.
The Library Journal broke the news on Friday that all new e-books licensed from that publisher — which brought us such modern classics as Sarah Palin’s America By Heart and Justin Halpern’s Sh*t My Dad Says — will be …
Starting next Sunday, March 6th, Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader will be available for purchase at AT&T’s retail locations.
It’ll cost $189 just like it does directly from Amazon, but the $139 Wi-Fi-only version won’t be available from AT&T. The $189 version uses AT&T’s 3G network to deliver books wirelessly and also contains a Wi-Fi …
Internet retail giant Amazon.com released its Q4 2010 earnings yesterday, highlighted by “two big milestones” according to company founder Jeff Bezos.
Amazon reported Q4 as the first quarter that it cleared $10 billion in sales—it almost hit $13 billion, actually, with the final tally settling in at $12.95 billion. The company also …
Do you:
– Still like the feeling of grainy paper brushing against your finger tips?
– Miss the days when you could dog ear a page instead of a device annoying automatically starting up where you left off?
– Actually like books taking up space in your house or apartment?
If you said yes to any of these questions – and own a …
