Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ebook. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Thursday, March 13, 2008
30 Benefits of Ebooks
Although "Read an Ebook week" (March 2-8, 2008) is officially over, Epublishers Weekly 30 Benefits of Ebooks List (written in January) is still relevant.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Format wars: e-book versus print
TeleRead suggests that it doesn't have to be an either or situation. Print or e-books or audiobooks, for that matter, all have their usefulness depending on content or circumstance.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Read an E-Book Week, March 9-15
Whether you are into green or black & white, March 9 - 15 has been "set aside to educate consumers about reading electronic books and other reading material." For more...
Ebooks on iPhone and iPod Touch
Although you need to have an active web connection, "With TextOnPhone, iPhone and iPod touch users can view electronic books (ebooks), text files, and documents on the go using an iPhone-friendly interface when browsing TextOnPhone.com." For more...
Friday, January 4, 2008
A New Website for Free Ebook Downloads
I also posted this on our DigiDownload blog, because I was so impressed by it. Please excuse the duplication.
This is a pretty snazzy site to acquire free ebook downloads. I'm not sure that some of these titles couldn't be found elsewhere, but the format and content should appeal to Gen Ys.
What attracted me first was the layout of the website and then the categories - these are not all classics and public domain titles. Yes, they have comics and graphic novels and great cookbooks! WOWIO books are free because sponsors pay authors and publishers on subscribers' behalf, so some are rather new releases.
Important things to note: you need to register to download titles; these are pdf files, so you will need the latest Adobe reader installed on your pc; you create a queue of titles you want to read, but only three titles may be downloaded each day. I think there is a time limit to access your titles, but I'm guessing that you can request it again if you need it for a longer period of time.
So far I've checked out - Stargate: The Graphic Novel, Excel 2007 Miracles Made Easy, and Stews, Casseroles & One Pot: 365 Recipes.
The site also provides RSS feeds to be notified about new releases.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
E-Phone?
Will the next generation e-book reader be part of your phone? Well, for readers in Japan that seems to be the case.
How does it work:
You pay about $2.50 a month for a subscription to download novels from the publishers website to your cell phone. "The stories are divided into gobbets which can be read in about three minutes, the typical distance between two stops on the Japanese subway." For more on this topic see seattlepi.com
Evidently it is such a big phenom in Japan that more fiction bestsellers are read and written for mobile phones than in any other format.
How does it work:
You pay about $2.50 a month for a subscription to download novels from the publishers website to your cell phone. "The stories are divided into gobbets which can be read in about three minutes, the typical distance between two stops on the Japanese subway." For more on this topic see seattlepi.com
Evidently it is such a big phenom in Japan that more fiction bestsellers are read and written for mobile phones than in any other format.
Friday, November 23, 2007
Inform or Discuss
At 1:00 am. this morning I came up with the idea of creating a blog for our technology staff to inform our public about new technologies in libraries and/or to answer any tech questions within our scope of knowledge or collective experiences. Well, in my post-Thanksgiving stupor - it sounded like a good idea, so here goes...
For the past several weeks I've been hearing about Amazon.com' s new wireless Reading Device, the Kindle, and how it will or will not revive the struggling ebook world. I guess I'm going to have to wait a while to see it for myself - Amazon's Kindle has completely sold out at $399.00. Darn those early adopters.
What makes this device different from the old Rocket book and other ebook readers? The display is supposed to look and read like real paper; it's wireless - so connecting to a PC is not necessary; and it's supposed to have a long battery life. Amazon promises that there are 80,000+ titles available and that it has 100 current bestsellers and more new releases available for $9.99 a title.
Top newspapers (US & international), magazines, and blogs are also available by auto-delivery throughout the day. Is this too good to believe? I've placed a back order and will let you all know after our staff has had time to evaluate it.
For the past several weeks I've been hearing about Amazon.com' s new wireless Reading Device, the Kindle, and how it will or will not revive the struggling ebook world. I guess I'm going to have to wait a while to see it for myself - Amazon's Kindle has completely sold out at $399.00. Darn those early adopters.
What makes this device different from the old Rocket book and other ebook readers? The display is supposed to look and read like real paper; it's wireless - so connecting to a PC is not necessary; and it's supposed to have a long battery life. Amazon promises that there are 80,000+ titles available and that it has 100 current bestsellers and more new releases available for $9.99 a title.
Top newspapers (US & international), magazines, and blogs are also available by auto-delivery throughout the day. Is this too good to believe? I've placed a back order and will let you all know after our staff has had time to evaluate it.
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