Google’s going mobile—but mostly with out-of-copyright titles that have landed in the public domain. With Amazon getting in on the act and making Kindle-formatted books mobile-friendly, are we seeing a migration away from investment in dedicated eReaders?
Fifteen Million Books in Your Pocket... And Only One Google
Plastic Logic: Greenwashed?
Kindle II to Launch in February?
Gadget rumours are flying like crazy with the New York Times Blog speculating that Amazon will be releasing an updated Kindle on February 9th.
Your Digital Assets Already Exist
Stanza’s COO Neelan Choksi (and future BNC Tech Forum speaker is interviewed on TeleRead.org
I fundamentally believe the one thing every publisher needs to do is to figure out their overall strategy and see how digital publishing fits into it. Right now, the sense I get is that each digital group is not really part of the overall picture but more of a skunkworks, or side project.
Shortcovers Defined and Reviewed
The Wall Street Journal offers more insight into the goals of Indigo’s Shortcovers and what it offers readers.
Plastic Logic Reader up Close and Personal
A curious gadget lover from PDAToday has posted a video of the Plastic Logic reader prototype up close and personal. From CES 2009:
Indigo to Launch Shortcovers
Indigo’s eReading venture, Shortcovers is set to launch at the end of the month. Over at Index//MB, Mark Bertils’ shares his first reactions.
Origami E-Reader: Readius
Alexander Turcic at MobileRead posted a few pictures of the soon-to-be-released Readius e-reader.
800 Newspapers in Your Briefcase
iRex has recently announced subscription access to more than 800 newspapers from 81 countries on its new iRex Digital Reader 1000 series.