Tag: E-BOOKS

Publishers and educational companies are struggling with how to best utilize emerging technologies for addressing the needs of schools while staying relevant in an increasingly post-print world. Macmillan thinks it has a solution in DynamicBooks, a new subsidiary that sells editable, electronic textbooks. DynamicBooks allow professors to customize educational tomes by reordering chapters and ...

Apple is never one to sit on the sidelines of any market niche for too long, so it's no surprise that it envisions the iPad as not just a Web-browsing device or over-sized iPod touch, but as an entry into the over-saturated e-book reader market, as well. To that end, Apple has unveiled the iBooks Store, a "print " media companion to the iTunes store loaded with publications from Harper Collins, ...

Amazon is hosting a press event in New York City on Wednesday, which means there's a new Kindle on the way. Our colleagues over at Engadget dug up some spy photos and basic specs of the new device, which is being called the Kindle DX. Improvements over the current Kindle 2 include a larger, 9.7-inch display, a built-in PDF reader, and the ability to add annotations (as well as notes, as before). ...

Amazon made us wait for over a year between the Kindle and the updated Kindle 2.0. But a scant three months after the unveiling of the newer e-reader, online rumors are already saying that we may see a bigger-screen Kindle as soon as this week. Amazon has begun to send out invitations to a press event, scheduled for this Wednesday, May 6th, where many expect that a larger-screened device, ...

Who knew that that the Amazon Kindle would prove to be such a flash point for controversy? The device's text-to-speech capabilities rankled the Authors Guild, which then pushed Amazon to disable the feature, or at least allow publishers to opt out of it. This has, in turn, gotten the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) up in arms. Today, the NFB is taking to the streets outside the Authors ...

Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' is, for both noble and despicable reasons, one of the most read books in history. Since its original publication after Hitler's release from jail in 1924, it has been available in several editions. When he was at the height of his power as Führer, there was a "people's edition," a "wedding edition" (given as a gift to all newlyweds), and the "Tornister-Ausgabe," ...

It's a good time to be a Sony Reader owner. Google has just made 500,000 titles from its massive public-domain book collection accessible to users of Sony's popular e-book reader. This is the first time Google has made these resources available to such a device, effectively pushing Sony's Reader past Amazon's Kindle (which offers about 240,000 titles) in terms of books available for the ...

After years of teasing -- FLEPia was first announced in April of 2007, and first proven in 2006 -- Fujitsu has at last released its color e-book (or e-paper mobile terminal, as they'd like you to call it) to the masses. Featuring an 8-inch XGA screen capable of displaying 260,000 colors, along with Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and up to 4GB of storage via SD card, and measuring less than half an inch thick, ...

We were able to get our hands on an Amazon Kindle 2 a few days before today's ship date. The next-generation e-book reader is lighter and thinner, has a longer battery life, and now includes text-to-speech capability, but for $359, is it worth upgrading from the original? More importantly, is it ready to replace your books? (Possibly, if you plan on reading or buying 72 books in the next ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/world_news/Amazon_to_host_press_event_at_library'; It could mean anything that Amazon is hosting a press event Monday morning, February 9th at the Morgan Library here in New York City. Maybe they just want to talk about how much they enjoy huge archives of original manuscripts and the smell of aged paper. Whatever the case may be, the last time we went to an Amazon ...

That Oprah, she's a wily one. She's constantly selling something or giving something away in an effort to tighten her grip on the throat of the world. Which is why we're a little confused that when she decided to endorse the Kindle, she neglected to make sure she had any content to sell on it. After the TV talk show queen threw her hefty cultural weight behind her "new favorite gadget" last ...

Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel has a long tradition of nurturing the literary-minded -- Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, even Harpo Marx hung out there in its heyday. Keeping up with the times, the folks running the Algonquin today apparently still have literature on their minds, and are offering Amazon's Kindle pre-loaded with a book of their choice for guests of the hotel during their stay. If ...

Remember those leaked Kindle 2 hardware shots from a while back? Well, they're real, but the rumored release date of sometime this past October is obviously wrong. Well, it was rumored to be correct, but sources are now reporting that the new release date is Q1 2009 due to Amazon head Jeff Bezos wanting a few changes in the software. The Kindle is one of those strange devices where the high ...

Companies has been trying to dream up a "kitchen computer" for years. HP has been pitching itsTouchSmart as a cook-friendly information center, computers have been crammed into refrigerators, and we've even tried out the OLPC as a 21st-century replacement for the cookbook. The problem is, all these items merely put words on a screen, and don't actually offer anything that a physical cookbook ...

Google Book Search, while an impressive tool, has faced numerous roadblocks and lawsuits that have prevented it from reaching its full potential. Many books that have no existing copyright are available from the search giant's library, as are textbooks from many universities. Things may finally be turning around for the company, which has a stated goal to index all of the knowledge in the ...