eReader update for the iPhone
Coming in days, as summed up by jkOntheRun: download ereader PDB from any website from within the app. This works for any site that actually has links...
Rhombus Tech aims to outdo Raspberry Pi at cheap, open computing platforms
And speaking of low-cost computers like the OLPC, Slashdot has a post about a company developing a micro-sized computer on a circuit board that will be three times faster than the...
Calibre 0.7.53 released
New Features
Email delivery: You can now specify a subject that calibre will use when sending emails per email account, configured in Preferences->Sending by email. The subject is a template...
Ted Striphas on “The Abuses of Literacy: Amazon Kindle & the Right to Read”...
The first is the title of an article published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, by Ted Striphas, the author of The Late Age of Print.
Here's the abstract. The...
txtr eReading solution to be available on Toshiba’s tablets and PCs in Europe
From the press release:
txtr are to provide eReading solutions and a versatile eBook catalogue for Toshiba’s tablets and PC devices in Europe. From the end of this month, the txtr eBook...
Author Jeffrey Carver releases free e-book
Found on the Baen Bar: Jeffrey Carver, author of the Starrigger series, has put his book Neptune Crossing on his website, starrigger.net, as a free download in unencrypted html, MobiPocket, eReader,...
David Gerrold: E-books ready to begin their next evolution
On Maximum PC, author David Gerrold slots the e-book into place as the latest member of a distinguished lineage of disruptive media that build on what came before them. Movies built...
Microscope images of e-ink display show capsules
More images at Paolo Amoroso's flickr site. Paolo took the images as part of testing two digital microscopes. You can find Paolo's Nostromics website here.
I's surprised at how irregular...
Don Johnston Announces Snap&Read A Simple Toolbar That Reads Any Text On-Screen
From the press release:
Don Johnston Incorporated today announced Snap&Read, a software toolbar that reads any text on-screen as it floats over any application. Its simple one-button interface...
Amazon revokes API access for Kindle e-book lending service Lendle
A number of sources, including CNET, report that Amazon has revoked API access for Kindle e-book lending service Lendle (whom we mentioned here and here). According to Lendle, Amazon said that...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
