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The future of... Ink

Imagine a magazine that updates its articles whenever new information is available. A tablet that stores all the textbooks a university student will ever need. Or a supermarket shelf tag that automatically reflects price changes. ZDNet correspondent Sumi Das shows us how electronic ink is turning the...

Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, electronic ink, e-paper, future, technology, Kindle, e-book, Sumi Das, Esquire, magazine

Videos 2008-11-19

eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishers

eBooks get social, pose further threat to traditional publishersExcited about the possibilitiesI believe in what Stephen King said - that eBooks are great but nothing will ever replace the feel of a paperback in your hand. That being said, I'm excited by the idea of being anywhere and having the...

Tags: E-books, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-10-28

Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screen

Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screenSony ReaderThis is not the second version of the Sony Reader but the third. Last month they gave owners of the original version the opportunity to upgrade with a $100 discount which still meant a $200+ outlay. ...

Tags: Keyboards, E-books, Engineering, Monitors & displays, Sony Corp., Reader eBook, light-emitting diode, e-book, touch screen

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

Sony announces new Reader eBook device with integrated LED and touch screen

iRex announced new ebooks with touch screen functionality last week and now Sony just announced the Sony Reader PRS-700 with touch screen functionality. I still have and enjoy using my PRS-505 and this newest model looks to have about the same form factor. Even more impressive to me than the...

Tags: Touch Screen, Sony Corp., Light-emitting Diode, E-book, Touch Screen Functionality, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-10-03

iRex announces 3 new ebook readers priced from $649 to $849

iRex announces 3 new ebook readers priced from $649 to $849These people are smoking crack ...To think that more than a handful of people would shell out this kind of money is delusional.RE: iRex announces 3 new ebook readers priced from $649 to $849They must expect that there are a...

Tags: E-books, e-book, new ebook reader, iRex, ebook reader

Discussion threads 2008-09-23

eBooks: The first step of a long change

eBooks: The first step of a long changeYes, indeed.It is a suicide Jack, but I was playing on the "content is king" trope.I might be interested in Great Expectations, if the eBook had links to historical information Dickens knew, how the book had informed later books -- through links to...

Tags: E-books, e-book, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-09-21

PDF Creator Make Your Own Adobe Acrobat eBooks (zip)

PDF Creator converts word documents and plain txt into high quality and accurate PDFs in a single click with it's high powered in-built word processor. No need for Microsoft Office. Version 1 includes unspecified updates.

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PDF, Adobe Acrobat, E-book, Demon Downloads, PDF Creator

Software downloads 2008-09-02

Can you trust kids with a Kindle?

Can you trust kids with a Kindle?Can you trust kids with a Kindle?I agree with you for the most part. An electronic book or ereader would be good for looking up information to reference. The drawback I see is the price tag of the kindle, and if someone...

Tags: E-books, textbook, locker, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?

eBooks volume 3: What is the right price for a device that holds 100s of books?Thanks for asking.Everybody is talking about eBook readers, but nobody is asking what the market will pay for them.I love the Kindle, but I think it's a bit expensive, and your poll results show that...

Tags: E-books, e-book, eBooks volume

Discussion threads 2008-08-19

eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?

eBooks, volume 2: What's the bridge document that would drive ebook reader adoption?How about none of those?The selection is not wide enough. I don't want anything but books on my eboook reader, assuming there's one good enough to buy (which there isn't).None of the aboveFor crying out loud, the...

Tags: E-books, BIGGEST PROBLEM, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-08-12

Kindle, Sony and eBook readers: How many a month?

Kindle, Sony and eBook readers: How many a month?eBooks on MobiPocket on my SmartphoneI dont own a Kindle (waiting for V2 - hoping it will look better!) but I always have 2 or 3 eBooks on my phone in case I get stuck waiting somewhere.No paper for meSince getting my...

Tags: E-books, Project Gutenberg, e-book, Sony Corp., eBook Reader, Palm Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-05

Canadian court shutters torrent tracker

Canadian court shutters torrent trackerJust Walk AwayI realize that most of the people on the internet are content junkies but the best way to deal with a for profit company that relies on sales to survive is to not buy their product. Don't download illegally and don't buy physical content....

Tags: E-books, INTERNET, Intellectual property, Well Let, tracker, e-book, music

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggers

The Associated Press plays role of Metallica in Napster-esque war with bloggersHey, Jennifergood and HOT blog. Exactly what we needed :)Good Job, Jen...As a published author and a blooger of sorts myself, I am damned happy to be a part of the Internet and what it has done both professionally...

Tags: E-books, Postal Service, Metallica, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-18

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?

"Everything gets delivered in an electronic form" - Textbooks, too?Well...Producing texts is "fun" and all that, however you've got a hurdle or two to overcome. Nothing unsurmountable, but they're there.The prime issue is that publishers have an awful lot of material locked down under copyright, particularly in terms of graphics....

Tags: E-books, LaTeX, textbook, e-book

Discussion threads 2008-06-06

Microsoft, Amazon.com do the e-book dance

Microsoft, Amazon.com do the e-book danceAntiscipate Apple's next move?Seems like M$ is trying to anticipate what Apple might do. But all apple has to do, is pick 1 book selling company. And thats where everyone is going to go. No problem.

Tags: E-books, e-book, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-03-23

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?

Book publishers finally getting their digital acts together?Schools / Books / LearningDoes anyone know if there is merit to saying that books are a better method of teaching than a computer?Cost of books? Perhaps a little respect for the written word should be implemented.Notes? Do you remember looking through that...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), e-book, digital-rights management, book publisher, Books, sales

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

Bible Study Basics eBook (zip)

Discover how to get the most out of your time in God's Word. Learn the true purpose of Bible study, and the four most fruitful Bible study methods.The book and reprint rights are totally free. Pass it along via email, or even through your blog or website.

Tags: Bible, E-book

Software downloads 2008-02-04

Sony Reader felled by the classics

Sony Reader felled by the classicsSony had a reader?This is news to me. Maybe the Kindle will do better.Things can only get betterAs with any completely new device, you should expect problems. But I could see these things taking off. The main reason e-books never took off is...

Tags: E-books, load time, Sony Corp., Sony Reader, e-book

Discussion threads 2007-12-18

Parting thoughts on the Kindle for students

As much as I would like to hang on to Larry Dignan's Kindle ebook reader, downloading books from all of my favorite authors using his Amazon account, it's time for it to go back (and just when William Gibson's latest, Spook Country, is now available in Kindle format!). Having...

Tags: Student, E-book, Teacher, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Larry Dignan loans me his Kindle

Fellow blogger, Larry Dignan, loaned me his Amazon Kindle so that I could look at it from an Ed Tech perspective (thanks, by the way, Larry - I promise I'm not downloading the complete works of Neal Stephenson and charging them to your Amazon account). Is this yet another...

Tags: Larry Dignan, E-book, Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-12-06