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Sony released a 7-inch, $399, touchscreen, 3G and Wi-Fi e-book reader this morning, and it's never more obvious that Amazon is up against a wall in the market segment it helped create.
There are various ebook reader devices on sale and there are plenty of books in
electronic format available, but we have not reached the tipping point where
cheap ebook devices are available and enough ebook content is available at an
attractive price.
Instead of the 20,000 books the school currently has, the students of Cushing
Academy will have 18 e-readers at their disposal. The learning centre - the
replacement for what was once the school's library - will also have three large
TVs, a coffee shop, and laptop-friendly booths.
Two e-book readers due in late August aim to close Sony's sales gap with Amazon, whose Kindle continues to sizzle. Again, interesting in light of Thompson article.
Amazon.com Inc is introducing Kindle, its wireless electronic reader, for over 100 countries, including China. Still, the problem is the price of reader.It is better to use lower price to attract more consumers.
one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book.
Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem!
is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes
link).
The book comes with a number of extras, including a 23-minute making-off video,
alternate covers, concept art, wallpapers, and optional voice-over narration and
sound effects
While Steve Jobs just told the New York Times' David Pogue that Apple isn't interested in creating a single-purpose eBook reader and that he doesn't think that eBooks are a big enough market right now, one eBook-like format has already made it into the iTunes store: a comic book. Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem! is now available, together with one song, as an iTunes LP album for $1.99 (iTunes link). Mayhem! was first released as a three-issue mini-series earlier last month
It is a good news for Internet users, especially google users to see the google books under cc licenses. The more rights of viewers to see the books, the more criticize and ideas come out. then more crticize, the more critics criticize, the better the information is shared by authors and readers. The better the information is about how to improve the books, the more improvement of content is made.
Google Books launched an initiative to help authors and publishers discover new audiences for books they've made available for free under Creative Commons (CC) licenses. Rightsholders who want to distribute their CC-licensed books more widely can choose to allow readers around the world to...
that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily
downloadable
and completely portable
Mr. Benkler said he saw the project as "simply an experiment of how books might
be in the future." That is one of the hottest debates in the book world right
now, as publishers, editors and writers grapple with the Web's ability to
connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately, new technologies that
make it easier to search books electronically and the advent of digital devices
that promise to do for books what the iPod has done for music: making them easily
downloadable and completely portable.
For unknown authors struggling to capture the attention of busy readers,
however, the Web offers an unprecedented way to catapult out of obscurity.
For many authors, the question of how technology will shape book publishing
inevitably leads to the question of how writers will be paid.
books themselves are a relatively new construct, inheritors of a longstanding
oral storytelling culture. Mass-produced books are an even newer phenomenon,
enabled by the invention of the printing press that likely put legions of
calligraphers and bookbinders out of business.
Yochai Benkler, a Yale University law professor and author of the new book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" (Yale University Press), has gone even farther: his entire book is available - free - as a download from his Web site. Between 15,000 and 20,000 people have accessed the book electronically, with some of them adding comments and links to the online version.