Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there
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
e-book market is threatened by unfettered proliferation of e-book platforms, formats, and DRMs. Some service providers support multiple e-book platforms and DRMs. They can adopt this type of model, but do publishers agree to support it in their licensing agreements?
CIOs and IT directors are being overwhelmed by the choice of products in the social software market, making it difficult for organisations to decide what products to deploy.
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.
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.
Is the ebook market becoming saturated? As more companies invest in digital technologies, there seems to be growing concern that returns won't be what initially expected.
"This principle of free carriage of publicly funded content should be included
in the public interest objectives of the NBN company and the company should be
legislatively obliged to devise an effective mechanism for implementing it." The
ABC's submission proposed the federal government establish a list of internet
addresses that the NBN would exempt from download charges for ISPs. The savings
would then be passed on to consumers.
Dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult
for journalism to flourish on the internet," he said. "Yet it is essential for
the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged
for news to people who value it."
THE ABC has called on the federal government to pass laws ensuring consumers won't have to pay to access any publicly funded content carried on the planned national broadband network, a measure that would give it a huge advantage over its commercial rivals.
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.
Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon's Kindle.
A short clip about the advatanges and disadvantage of E-books. but more on the optimistic side. It predicts that the future e-book market will increase.
As widely expected, Barnes & Noble unveiled its Nook electronic reading device at a splashy news conference on Tuesday to generally positive views from the publishing community, and offered some details about its whispered-about lending capabilities.