Hotels in New York, Miami, and Turks & Caicos are now offering guests Sony Readers for loan. New York's storied Algonquin Hotel, meanwhile, already offers Amazon's Kindle.
Data from monitoring service StatCounter suggests that Bing , Microsoft's new search decision engine, has overtaken Yahoo Search as the number two search service in the U.S. and worldwide in large part thanks to stealing market share from leader Google.
Almost everybody loves an underdog. Still, it's a monumental leap of faith to suggest that a small fry has much of a chance at toppling the Goliath of the electronic reader market, Amazon.com.
Here's more info about one of the "Deep Web" search engines I spoke about in my presentation. Deep Dyve just released some new search tools that publishers may consider using to increase their web presence.
This article discusses how some major news organizations are participating in the "Digital Newsbook Publishing Project" which hopes to sell in-depth articles as digital books. This sounds very promising and reminds me a conversation we had in class about this very topic.