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Hands on with the Alex eReader
They are currently partnering with international publishing houses and periodicals and will work with those partners to create an web store as well as a unique UI for each device. In this way a newspaper could offer a branded version of its reader and offer it at a subsidized rate to online subscribers or a publishing house or book store could offer their own branded experience.
...Tags: The Alex ereader is out and I got to look at it today for a few minutes. The top part is a real epaper screen and the bottom part is essentially
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Join Charlie Rose, Ron Conway, Jack Dorsey And Lots Of Others At TechCrunch Disrupt
He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Before joining McKinsey in 2001, Wolf was a senior partner with Booz & Company, where he spearheaded its media and entertainment group. His bestselling book on entertainment economics, The Entertainment Economy: We are just starting to announce the first speakers at the upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York City on May 24 – 26 .
TechCrunch Disrupt is a three-day, single-track
TechCrunch
- Monday, March 15, 2010
How Innovation Can Tame Chaotic Care
Take checklists, which are the subject of a new book, The Checklist Manifesto , by my colleague at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Partners Healthcare System, Atul Gawande. Lee is the network president of Partners Healthcare System, in Boston, and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. HBR's " Ten Innovations That Will Transform Medicine " hit all the big ones, but I'm not so sure that the last three high-tech items in the list are going to make a major difference for many patients in the next few years — though I'd be shocked if they didn't have a huge impact a decade from now.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, March 15, 2010
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Google Books Adds New Features And Tools
Google has launched a bunch of new features to Google Books in an effort to promote interactivity between readers and the online books.
Embeddable previews of books: This new feature allows you to embed a preview of a full view or partner book in your websites or blogs, just like you would with a YouTube video. You can also copy and paste a url link in an email to share the book with your friends. 1. 2.
TechCrunch
- Thursday, June 18, 2009
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Amazon Allows Some Publishers and Authors to Opt Out of E-Book DRM
Right now, Amazon's DRM policy means that its customers can't transfer their books to a non-Kindle e-reader.
Given that this is a self-publishing tool, the company doesn't have to explain this change to its partners in the publishing industry while allowing the company to experiment with a DRM-free solution. Most publishing houses tend to be very conservative when it comes to DRM-free e-book solutions. Amazon quietly made a major change to its Digital Text Platform last week that went largely unnoticed: small publishers and individual authors who use the Digital Text Platform can now opt out of the Kindle's digital rights management (DRM) program.
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, January 21, 2010
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Sony Partners With Smashwords, Author Solutions for E-Book Distribution
Startup e-book publishing house Smashwords has sussed out a distribution agreement with Sony Electronics that will allow for user creation of publishing accounts and expedited publishing and distribution of books for the Sony Readers through their eBook Store.
Aspiring authors and independent publishers can upload Microsoft Word documents and have distro-ready e-books within hours.
Effective immediately, the Sony Publisher Portal is re-launched and open for business. Sponsor
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ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, September 28, 2009
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Bits Of Destruction Hit the Book Publishing Business: Part 1
more interesting and nuanced wave is now hitting the book publishing business. Actually, it is three waves: the digitization of back catalogs, e-books, and print on demand. Greco, in his book "The Book Publishing Industry" (the relevant extract of which is available, ironically, on Google Books), pegs the number at $65 billion in 1993. " Bits of destruction " is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of " creative destruction " brought on by digitization. We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the newspaper business.
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the Battle for E-Books
There's a battle emerging over the industry structure of e-books: Amazon has one approach, Barnes & Noble another. In the case of personal computers, it was of course Microsoft that developed an advantage by both dominating the operating system space and by partnering with Intel to take the lead in microprocessors. What are the implications for the current battle over e-books? Will the clash play out like the computer wars of the late 80s, or the music wars of the late 90s? Let's take a look.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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Bringing e-Books to Africa and the Middle East
In the United States, Western Europe and Asia, e-Books are becoming a major player, especially now that e-Readers like the Kindle and Nook are available. Two of the keynote speakers at the upcoming Tools of Change conference are working to improve access to e-Books in these areas: Arthur Attwell in South Africa and Ramy Habeeb in Egypt. We talked to each of them about how e-Books are important in their area of the world, But people living in the Arabic-speaking world or Africa haven't been invited to the dance. Flash Player upgrade required
OReilly Radar
- Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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Major Book Publishers Start Turning To Scribd
Online document sharing site Scribd has announced that it has partnered with a number of major publishers, including Random House, Simon & Schuster, Workman Publishing Co., Offering book excerpts to entice readers is nothing new - Amazon and Google have been doing this for years, and Amazon’s Kindle allows readers to download book samples to their devices for free. Scribd’s Berrett-Koehler, Thomas Nelson, and Manning Publications, to legally offer some of their content to Scribd’s community free of charge. Publishers have begun to add an array of
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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BookServer: A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer , which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on any device whether that's a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or one of the myriad of e-Readers like Amazon's Kindle.
The project's lofty goal is to essentially create an open web of books where anyone can publish their books and make their content available via search.
ReadWriteWeb
- Tuesday, October 20, 2009
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The Secret Lives Of Objects: StickyBits Turn Barcodes Into Personal Message Boards
Founded by Billy Chasen (the original programmer behind Chartbeat ) and Seth Goldstein (chairman and founder of SocialMedia), the startup just closed a $300,000 seed round from Polaris Venture Partners and Mitch Kapor. If stickybits sounds like science fiction that may be because they share some attributes with author Bruce Sterling’s concept of “Spimes” (later fleshed out in his book Shaping Things ):
Every place and object in the world has a secret past: who lived there, who passed by, who touched it. The secret lives of objects are filled with
TechCrunch
- Monday, March 8, 2010
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Google Books Offers Creative Commons Licensing
Earlier this morning Google Books announced a program where rights owners would be given the option to modify their copyright licenses and specify them as Creative Commons (CC) works. The initiative allows writers, artists and publishers to mark their books with one of 6 CC version 3 licenses , a public domain license or the CC "no rights reserved" license .
The addition of Google Sponsor
In the last few months Creative Commons has celebrated some benchmark programs with large-scale publishers including perhaps the most notable event, Wikipedia's community-wide
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, August 13, 2009
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