Review: Aluratek Libre eBook Reader – ugly, but a good entry level option
Posted on 01. Mar, 2010 by JD in News, reader, review
It's no secret that Amazon's Kindle has become the iPod of digital readers. But, at $US259 for the base model (the larger-screened DX will run you $489), it's a pricey piece of hardware. Is there room for a cheaper device to swoop in and steal some of the market?
Aluratek certainly hopes so. The U.S. gadget [...]
New ebook reader out of Taiwan – Taipower K6
Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog
The Taiwan Power company has just announced their second ebook reader. The K6 has a 6″ E-ink screen, nad is reported to be more capable than Taipower’s first e-reader, the K3. There is no word yet on price or availability, but one company spokesman has said that the timetable is “soon”.
It has the page turn [...]
Australia to get iPad 3G first, giggling starts
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by JD in AU, News, blog, iPad
As we reported in January, the iPad will be lobbing in Australia in late March for those of us media types – grin – who get a test-drive, with a general release in April.
What we didn’t know is that we’d be getting the 3G version straight up! Tasty.
As Australian Personal Computer mag reports the local [...]
The Cheap-arse Tuesday Couponathon!
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by JD in Discounts, blog
Behold – its discount time, cheap-seekers … Here are this week’s coupons:
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Get 20% Off Featured Authors at Ebooks.com!!!
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Single eTextBook Chapters as low as $1.99
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iPad: Aussie Publishers scramble for the winning formula
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by JD in AU, News, iPad
Via www.mondaynote.com
Among Australian media executives, like everywhere else, the talk of the town is the iPad. I was in Sydney this week, giving a talk at the Media 2010 conference. This gave rise to vibrant discussions of the ways in which the Apple device could transform our industry.
Among the group of speakers, the most enthusiastic [...]
Ebook piracy is good? My response to the howls of protest
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, UK, blog
After publishing a post from The Guardian in the UK about how ebook piracy hardly exists at this point, but is probably inevitable, and may be a necessary evil to force us to rethink publishing, I have been deluged by howls of protest. Fair enough – you can find some of them in the comments [...]
Publishers (still) fighting basic ebook economics
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog
Via www. Techdirt.com
From the fighting-basic-economics-is-never-a-good-idea dept…
For a while now, we’ve been discussing how the pricing on ebooks doesn’t make much sense, and almost certainly needs to fall. Like many industries, the book business could learn a lot from other businesses that have realized that drastically lowering the price on digital goods can massively increase sales, [...]
Will Kindle apps kill off the device?
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog, iPad, kindle
A day after the Kindle app lobbed onto the Blackberry (in the US only – hear the teeth gnashing elsewhere around the world?), it’s time to ask whether Amazon is in danger of apping themselves out of the Kindle hardware business. If that’s their goal, I think they’re heading in the right direction.
Let me explain: [...]
Kindle for BlackBerry app now available – US only
Posted on 18. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, kindle
Amazon is today adding BlackBerrys to its stable of Kindle-compatible devices and also taking the opportunity to remind us that it’s working hard on Mac and iPad versions of its software. The app is a freebie download for Americans (sadly it’s not international just yet) and should offer the same functionality as its PC [...]
Bookeen Orizon to ship this May with multitouch
Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, UK
via Engadget by Darren Murph on 2/16/10
We’re still patiently waiting for Sipix’s color e-paper to hit the commercial realm, but ’til then, we suppose we’ll pretend to be content with the monochrome variety. Bookeen, which obviously has a hard row to hoe in the slam-packed e-reader market, recently announced what appeared to be a relatively [...]
