Archive for the 'Technology' Category (Chronologically Listed)

Free eBooks from Birmingham-Area Libraries August 25th, 2010

    It is 11pm and I just checked out a book from my local library.
    This week the JCLC system turned on its Overdrive-powered eBook network. So far it’s very very cool. The only complaints I have are tied to the CRAZY complicated hoops Adobe Digital Editions (which you will have to download) has in place. But [...]

IPSA Presentation slides July 20th, 2010

    Here is the slide deck from my presentation at the June IPSA meeting. I only wish there was a way for me to display the Q&A that followed, the questions were great and just what one would expect from a room full of technologists, when the subject is ebooks and book publishing.
    Book Publishing 2.010 :: [...]

Amazon Kindle App for Mac Now Available March 18th, 2010

    It’s finally here! Click here to go download it (download will start automatically).
    There’s nothing super special about it. With all the delays, since last year, I thought they were cramming in all of the annotations and such, but it looks like those are coming later. This app, which lets you buy and read kindle books [...]

Amazon Ready to Battle for Books January 21st, 2010

    It’s less than a week before Steve Jobs takes the stage atop a unicorn showing the world the fabled Apple Tablet (iSlate). And it appears that Amazon thinks there is going to be a real battle for books. In the past two years, Amazon has used its size to bulldoze its way through publishing. But [...]

Bundling eBooks and Digital Products December 29th, 2009

    It is almost 2010 and despite the rose-colored glasses being handed out by the Amazon PR team, eBooks and print-to-digital products still have a ways to go before becoming mainstream and major streams of revenue. This post is also serving to round out some views I’ve passed along via Twitter recently and in reply to V.Sandbrook.
    Publishers [...]

Enhancing Magazines and Books November 12th, 2009

    Experimenting. That’s what publishers are doing and it is very cool to think about what the near-future holds. This week I’m playing with two such experiments. One from a magazine publisher, the other from a book publisher.

    First, the print magazine. While many magazines are still reeling from economic and industry shifts, Esquire is charging ahead [...]

Just try it — Reading on an iPhone October 9th, 2009

    Seriously folks, let’s all give reading a book on an iPhone a try. I mean it’s free and eBooks and digital publishing aren’t going away. So, just try it. You don’t have to like it. In fact, you may not. Which is fine. But at least you’ll know.
    So, if you have an iPhone, just do [...]

I Bought an iPhone3GS and Now I Want to Read August 5th, 2009

    Not sure if you looked up in the sky last night, but a rare astronomical event occurred as planets aligned with soon-to-expire cellphone contracts and only a 5-minute wait at the local Apple store… so after many months of waiting… I finally got my iPhone. I spent the evening getting my gMail and Google Apps [...]

Barnes & Noble eReader for Mac – My Thoughts August 3rd, 2009

    So I downloaded the free Barnes & Nobel eReader 1.0 this morning, to check it out. I’m on a Mac and was glad to see that B&N rolled out versions of the readers for iPhone, Blackberry, PC and Mac all at the same time. That’s a good move.
    The first thing I tried to do was [...]

On the Same Page May 30th, 2009

    I have just finished reading Clive Thomspson’s WIRED artcile on the Future of Reading. The notion of unleashing the book online to prod readers into interacting with text sounds like fun and I like the idea of focusing on the reader. I look forward to all the variations and trials that publishers put forward in [...]