Tag: BOOK

We've give the e-book trend plenty of coverage, and, as we've stated before, there are still major hurdles in front of the emerging format. One of the highest is the absence of many notable books and authors from the e-book market, according to USA Today. There are many reasons why some books haven't yet made their ways to the Sony Reader or Kindle e-book devices -- contract negotiations, low ...

Bill Gates Sr., father of the Microsoft mogul and soon-to-be author, previewed his new autobiographical book in a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal. In the interview, the Gates family patriarch discusses seminal moments in his own life, while providing a rare glimpse into the formative years of his son, the world's wealthiest man. Gates Sr., a World War II veteran and former Seattle ...

Online shopping enables consumers to easily find and purchase desired goods, but it also forces actual store locations to adapt to technological advances and offer unique services in order to compete. Book stores have been seriously affected by the rise of Internet shopping, as multitudes of independent stores and huge chains have been forced to close, or to offer their goods solely online. ...

In order for e-books to really take off it's going to take more than just the Kindle. To reach a breaking point, it's going to take social networking (and probably file sharing) for people to accept reading literature in electronic form. While we've seen a few services aimed at connecting book lovers, such as Shelfari and Goodreads, we haven't yet seen a book site that has so fully embraced a ...

The newest generation of the Kindle, Amazon's digital reading device, can now read text aloud, and authors are not happy about it, USA Today reports. While the original Kindle was able to display the texts of whatever book a user downloaded, the Kindle 2 is additionally capable of reading those downloaded books to the user, albeit it in a robotic monotone. This capability, and the potential to ...

We're not exactly sure what this says about the officially unofficial App Store policy on explicit content, but David Carnoy's 'Knife Music' has just been approved for distribution in said marketplace after the so-called "objectionable content" was removed. Essentially, the author decided to submit a copy of the novel sans a few foul words, with him noting that it was "more important to have ...

So much for Amazon's attempts to quell Kindle 2 rumors, eh? Talk of a replacement (or a pair of replacements) for Amazon's popular -- but very oddly-styled -- e-reader has been in the mix seemingly since the first model started shipping, and Boy Genius Report has scored shots of something that certainly looks like it could be in the legitimate pipeline. The revised device appears to address ...

The estate of C. S. Lewis, author of the 'Chronicles of Narnia,' has sued a British couple after they purchased the Narnia.mobi domain for their 11 year-old child so he could have an @Narnia e-mail address. The estate filed a formal complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), seeking to force the family to hand over the domain name. The estate had to prove that the domain ...

Slash is a busy guy. In fact, we're not sure he's had any down time since recording what may be the greatest debut album in the history of Rock 'n' Roll, the Guns n' Roses classic 'Appetite for Destruction.' After the disintegration of the band and the hijacking of the name by a corn-rowed Axl Rose and a band of impostors ( whose next album 'Chinese Democracy' should be out some time before ...

Imagine this: You need a copy of 'The Great Gatsby' for a class. You've gone to three book stores and you've found 'The Beautiful and Damned' and 'The Last Tycoon,' but no 'Gatsby.' Thats when you notice an Espresso Book Machine. You wander over, scroll through a list of available titles, and "Ah Ha!" ... 'Gatsby.' Fifteen minutes later you have a perfect copy of 'The Great Gatsby' printed up ...

Google has signed on 12 new universities to participate in its Google Book Search program, a massive effort to scan textbooks in order to make them fully searchable over the Internet ... Goodbye, libraries! Search results are returned in different formats depending on the book's copyright status. That can range from a simple 'About' page to the full, printable text. The addition of the ...