All Blog Posts Tagged 'ebook' (10)

DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/12/diy-book-scanner/ From the Article: "A DIY book scanner also raises questions of piracy and copyright. The basic question being: Do you really own a book in all its forms when you buy a book? At the same time, ironically, the DIY book scanner is helping new create new tools to make copyright information more accessible. Tulane University is building a scanner based on… Continue

Added by John Dishon on December 13, 2009 at 12:50am — 8 Comments

Working Stiffs (eBook edition)

My short story collection, Working Stiffs, is now available for the Kindle and from Smashwords for other E-readers. Check it out and it's new cover art.

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Added by Simon Wood on December 12, 2009 at 8:11am — No Comments

Lift off!

On Tuesday this week I started writing the new Sophie Anderson book, Coming Home. Check out my YouTube video to see how it looked after 24 hours: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLG7C0Wzb7I As the voting deadline got closer, a clear leader began to emerge for my first question: What sparks Sophie to investigate her brother’s murder? And it seemed that option A had it: After 28 years with no abductions or murders similar to… Continue

Added by Phillipa Martin (PD Martin) on December 11, 2009 at 7:32pm — No Comments

BookRix - community connects writers to readers

www.bookrix.com - a social network for writers and readers, where everyone can convert novels, non-fiction, poetry, comics, poems etc public as an e-book in own design. You can edit your books with a special tool, or simply upload your doc and pdf-files. It's free to read books online. You can even download e-books for e-reader or smartphones for free. Find community features like individual user profiles, forum, groups etc and make new contacts, discuss with like-minded people or just read. Aud… Continue

Added by Nils on August 26, 2009 at 12:28am — No Comments

E BOOK ALERT

Available for Amazon’s KINDLE, Sony Reader or a range of eBook reading devices, the Belinda Lawrence mystery series for US $1.65 (approx) or 1 Pound Sterling each as a PDF. CAPABLE OF MURDER, THE EMBROIDERED CORPSE and BLOODY HAM direct from the publisher, BeWrite Books. Others charge according to their own policies: BeWrite offer you, my reader, my eBooks at this low price. Why not meet Belinda Lawrence and enjoy all three mysteries on your KINDLE or eBook reader? This link takes you directly… Continue

Added by Brian Kavanagh on August 19, 2009 at 9:39pm — No Comments

Kindle 2 Price Plunge Signals E-Book Reader Market Competition

http://www.pcworld.com/article/168098/kindle_2_price_plunge_signals_ebook_reader_market_competition.html From the article: "The bigger question remains, Is there a market here worth expanding? A dedicated e-book reader may enjoy a niche audience, but the question remains whether a separate device for reading digital books will be viable in the long term. A… Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 10, 2009 at 8:04am — 6 Comments

Amazon takes one more step toward in-book advertisements for the Kindle

http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/06/amazon-takes-one-more-step-toward-in-book-advertisements-for-the-kindle/ Continue

Added by John Dishon on July 8, 2009 at 1:47am — 14 Comments

A NEW BEGINNING FOR GOD OF DARKNESS

Pundits have for the past year danced around those shoveling dirt onto the grave of traditional publishers. Not that publishers will vanish into the hole any time soon. But the emergence of ebooks seems ready to drive the mass of readers to electronic readers.

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Added by ChristopherGMoore on June 12, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Amazon retreats on Kindle's text-to-speech issue

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10184406-93.html Well, that solves that problem. Continue

Added by John Dishon on March 1, 2009 at 3:20am — 4 Comments

Rumor: Larger, Touchscreen Kindle 3 may be released later this year

http://i.gizmodo.com/5161405/a-larger-touchscreen-kindle-3-coming-this-year Full text of the article: "While we first saw the Kindle 2 months ago in a leak, there's been another nagging rumor, one of a Kindle with a full 8.5"x11" display. And according to DigiTimes, that Kindle still exists. Sneakily tacked on a post about Amazon's e-ink display manufacturer Prime View International, the publication stat… Continue

Added by John Dishon on February 28, 2009 at 1:14am — 1 Comment