Thursday, October 29, 2009
Independent bookseller, Foyles, will begin stocking Sony Touch and Pocke ereaders and the BeBook Mini 5" reader. Additionally, the bookseller will open its own ebook webstore with 57,000 titles in EPUB and PDF formats.
You can read more at The Bookseller.
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Didn't like it. I mean why would would I want to carry around yet another device?
But the two real reasons I didn't like it:
First off, the text is justified and when you increase the zoom it can look 'orrible. You can't change the paragraph format.
And then of course, it doesn't smell of books. Still I could try this.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
TheStreet has a juicy rumor that Barnes & Noble, a store where physical “books” in “paper” form are sold to “customers” who stand in line to pay with “cash” or “forms of credit” is working on an eBook reader, possibly in partnership with Verizon.
Friday, March 20, 2009
“Fujitsu launches the world’s first e-book reader with a colour display in Japan.”
Read the whole thing here from The Sydney Morning Herald Technology Headlines
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add an array of content to Scribd’s library, including full-length novels as well as briefer teaser excerpts.
Read the whole thing here from TechCrunch
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Also see my web site about my boat AViVA. This was built with iWeb (not exactly to web standards but interesting tool for web building).
September 10, 10 - 08:17 am
Apple has relaxed restrictions on app dev tools. Maybe RunRev mobile will be useful after all. RunRev http://bit.ly/cbLF3i
September 09, 10 - 08:25 am
I went to the Web Teaching Day report with some useful links http://bit.ly/9AiGcm #wtd2010
September 09, 10 - 08:22 am
Just bought "HTML5: Up and Running" ePub for my iPad. Who needs print anymore? http://oreil.ly/9yGoOF
September 06, 10 - 11:13 am
#wtd2010 Standardistas need a new course but University of Ulster cannot accept the proposals for political reasons. Needs blended approach
September 06, 10 - 10:52 am
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