Have an Amazon Kindle? Bought an ebook version of Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ or ‘1984’? Chances are you will not find those books on your Kindle today. You see, during the night, when you were tucked up safe and sound in bed, the Amazon Thought Police crept into your electronic world and snatched these books back.…
Amazon Look To Christmas 2009 For Kindle UK
Amazon is putting the final pieces in place to allow a launch of the Kindle ebook reading device on the UK market. Amazon is understood to be in ‘advanced’ negotiations with a UK mobile operator according to this article in Mobile Today Magazine. This deal if completed will provide connectivity allowing users to download on…
Bezos On The Future of Amazon’s Kindle
Amazon’s CEO, Jeff Bezos has been speaking about plans to expand the Kindle reader across other ebook formats. Bezos spoke recently at Wired magazine’s ‘Disruptive technology’ conference held in New York and also to the New York Times newspaper. Recently Amazon released the larger DX device, which supports Adobe PDF, unlike its smaller Kindle sibling.…
Google Set To Go Head To Head With Amazon in Ebook Stakes
One of the more interesting items to come out of BookExpo America last week is news that Google is currently in negotiations with some book publishers with a view to setting up a program on line which will allow publishers to sell digital ebooks through Google. If Google do strike some deals then it will…
Atom’s Spoof Kindle 9XXXD Promotional Trailer
Atom is an internet funny video site. They have taken a pop at Amazon and their efforts to promote the Kindle DX with its larger size by looking into the future of the spoof Kindle 9XXXD! Take a look for yourselves. Funny Videos | Funny Cartoons | More Video Clips Atom Films The Independent Publishing…
Does Your Ebook Reader Dream In Colour?
Paul Marks and Michael Fitzpatrick write about the up and coming advances in Ereaders in yestersday’s ‘Tech’ articles of Publishersweekly.com, including the advances in A4 sized Ereaders and colour screens. You can read their article here. The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media
Amazon Acquires Lexcycle for Mobile Download Future
We have talked much in the past few months about ebooks and ereaders, but not touched upon the potential dowload of electronic product to iphones and mobile touchpads. It seems Amazon has kept its eye focused on this area with the aquisition of Lexcycle, producers of the ebook application, Stanza. The Stanza application gives iPhone…
London Book Fair 2009 – Ebook Discussion, Tuesday, April 21st
Torin Douglas, BBC media correspondent hosted a discussion this morning at the London Book Fair in Earls Court on ebooks with contributions from Gail Rebuck, CEO Random House, Tim Hely-Hutchinson, CEO Hachette Livre UK, Victoria Barnsley, CEO HarperCollins UK and John Makinson, CEO Penguin Group. Getting these publishing CEO luminaries together did not achieve wholesale…
Kindle 2 Launched By Amazon – The way forward for the e-reader? (Updated)
It seems the gathered publishing fraternity who turned up at the unveiling of Amazon’s new Kindle (Version 2) in the Morgan Library and Museum in New York city on Monday were more intrigued and quizzical, than necessarily bowled over by the new electronic edition to the Amazon family. Even host, Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, and…
Ebook Readers Reach Out to the School Classroom
There has been much talk in the publishing world about the evolution of electronic book readers and what impact they will ultimately have on the print media in general. It remains to be seen if these Ebook readers will do for print media, book publishers and online retailers, what the Ipod has done for the…