ENTRIES TAGGED "ebook readers"
The Pitfalls of Publishing's E-Reader Guessing Game
Hunting for e-reader sales figures is a fun diversion, but the underlying ambiguity threatens to distract businesses from bigger digital issues.
Iliad Book Edition E-Reader Coming to UK
iRex releases the next version of its iLiad E-Reader, but a high price tag means widespread adoption is unlikely.
Ease of Use as Anti-Piracy Tool
Simon Juden, CEO of the Publishers Association, says uniform ebook standards — and the resulting ease of use — can deter piracy. From The Bookseller: Licensing must be intuitive, simple and straightforward at the user level or the user will look for ways to circumvent them. On a related note: Itunes, noted in the past for its ease of…
Speculation on Kindle 2.0
Ars Technica speculates on what the Kindle 2.0 might provide: … the general hardware configuration appears to be here for a while. The fact that they're still selling the current version also suggests that they have committed to this design in all its white-plastic glory. In the long term, there's still the option of moving some of the awkwardly-placed…
[LBF] This Way to the Egress, er, Ebooks
Along with my registration materials for the London Book Fair (sent to me by mail — a sign of how traditional most of the publishing industry remains) was a ticket to something called the "London eBook Show at the London Book Fair." At first glance, I was excited to see that ebooks would be featured so prominently at the…