News – 1) A report in DigiTimes, picked up by Engadget and CrunchGear, quotes sources at upstream suppliers as saying Amazon has placed orders for a much-rumored new tablet PC, to ship in the second half of this year. 2) CNET reports that a Barnes & Noble SEC filing states the company will announce a [...]
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Interview – Author T.J. Waters has created an answer to his own question, one which I bet some of you have asked yourselves: “How come the tech world can put a man on the moon and I can’t sign an eBook?” His solution is Autography LLC, which will debut at BookExpo America its system for [...]
Interview – My guest this week is Sam Tanenhaus, editor of The New York Times Book Review. (Click here to subscribe to the Book Review on Kindle.) Sam is also an author, most recently of The Death of Conservatism: The Movement and Its Consequences. In 1997 he published Whitaker Chambers: A Biography. He is also [...]
Interview – Steven Pressfield, the bestselling author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and six military history novels, published The War of Art: Break Through Your Blocks & Win Your Creative Inner Battles nine years ago. Since then he has continued to write about overcoming resistance to creativity in the “Writing Wednesdays” column of his [...]
Interview (Starts at 3:08) – I spoke with James McQuivey, Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, by Skype today (April 8, 2011) by Skype, about all things e-book and tablet in 2011. As usual, he offers clear insights into trends shaping the e-book revolution. News – J.K. Rowling’s spokesman tells The Scotsman that [...]
News – The deadline is April 1 at 12 p.m. Eastern Time for submitting a video entry in an unusual contest being conducted by WorldReader.org. Thanks to a sponsorship by eDreams, the winner will receive an all-expenses-paid one-week trip to Ghana, where he or she will work as a volunteer in the organization’s project of [...]
News – U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin rejects the amended Google Books Settlement. A stunned Google plans its next move. Click here to download or read a PDF of the Judge’s decision. The Association of American University Presses has an excellent overview of the issues. Click here for Amazon’s objection to the original settlement. Ken [...]
News – 1) A retailer offers free Kindles in the U.K. when you sign a two-year phone contract. 2) Maybe Apple should just sell Kindles in its stores iPad accessories? 3) Hiring at Lab 126 fuels the Amazon Android Tablet rumor. Tech Tip – In which we lay to rest the topic of using nail [...]
News – 1) NPR Commentator and Poet Andrei Codrescu takes issue with Public Highlights on the Kindle. I wish he’d leave some of his own in his latest book, The Poetry Lesson. 2) Forrester Research’s CEO blogs cold water on the Kindle. Forrester’s James McQuivey weighs in with a caveat. 3) Kindle for Mac gets [...]
News – 1) Random House belatedly joins the “Apple 5″ publishers in adopting the Agency Model of e-book pricing, just in time to gain a brief but prominent mention by Steve Jobs at the iPad 2 press conference on March 2, 2011. Click here for video of the press conference. BusinessInsider offers reason to hope [...]
