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Derik Dupont

E-Readers Fall Short for News, Study Says - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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    The newspaper industry is struggling to hold onto its audience, and e-readers such as the Kindle may not help, according to a new study.
Derik Dupont

2010 seen good for TV, bad for e-readers| Reuters - 1 views

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    LONDON (Reuters) - The television will dominate home entertainment for another year in 2010, showing more staying power than newspapers and even their digital reincarnation the e-reader which could both
Derik Dupont

Let the E-Reader Price War Begin? Sony Drops to $169 - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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    Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 -- perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices.
Derik Dupont

Will Your Future E-Reader Be a Phone? - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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    Would you want to read a book or newspaper on a cellphone screen? On Tuesday, Hearst e-reading company Skiff announced that it signed a deal with Samsung's mobile phone division to become its "preferred e-reading service partner."
Derik Dupont

Self-published e-books to make it to Apple's iPad for almost no cost | VentureBeat - 1 views

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    Big publishers are flocking to the iPad, readying to publish electronic versions of their bestselling books on Apple's much-anticipated tablet ...
Derik Dupont

Amazon: A Patch for Your Novel Is Ready To Download - Digits - WSJ - 0 views

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    As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."
Derik Dupont

Creating a Magazine Over a Weekend - Digits - WSJ - 1 views

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    A group of writers and editors created a magazine in two days, in an experimental project that aimed to use the Internet to shake up the way a print magazine is made.
Derik Dupont

Digital Revolution Shakes Foundations of Book Retailing - WSJ.com - 2 views

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    Barnes & Noble, the leader in bookselling for 40 years, re-examines its business model." />
arnie Grossblatt

Reading in a Digital Age - 0 views

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    Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary
arnie Grossblatt

Color E-Readers Open Way for Picture Books - 1 views

  • But converting image-heavy books into digital form has not been easy. Authors are careful to monitor how their work appears on a screen, and publishers have struggled to replicate the experience of reading a print book
  • The prices of e-books with pictures be generally in line with print prices.
  • Some publishers have also had success breaking into the digital space by turning books into applications for mobile devices
arnie Grossblatt

Digital Magazines Are Hindered by Long Download Times - 0 views

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    Online magazines need to do more than just replicate print versions with added multimedia.  Need to think about platform specific design.
Laura Nelson

Digital Book World WEBcast Sept 20 - 0 views

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    I found out that Digital Book World is having a free WEBcast on Sept. 20 at 11:00 am. The topic is "Ebook's Real Impact on the Book Publishing Market: 2009-2011." It looks like a great opportunity to gain insight into this topic. Check out this link for more details.
arnie Grossblatt

The books business: Great digital expectations | The Economist - 4 views

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    All six sections of the report are worth reading.
Laura Nelson

On ebooks: A Publisher's View of the Digital Transformation - 0 views

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    I found this great article from the CEO of Sourcebooks.
Danielle DeVenio

The Future of Libraries - Telegraph - 0 views

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    Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally
Kori Kamradt

Pearson Answers Schwarzenegger's Call for E-Textbooks - 0 views

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    Last week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed replacing school textbooks with e-books in order to help plug a state budget gap. Now, textbook giant Pearson has responded with digital content to supplement California's programs in biology, chemistry, algebra 2, and geometry.
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    Let the revolution begin!!
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