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Archive for E-Reader Radio
Good e-Reader Radio – Week in Review – Amazon, B&N, Kobo, and Industry News
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Welcome to the Good e-Reader Radio Show – Your definitive source for e-reader, digital publishing, and tablet news.
Today on the show we talk about a few new firmware updates that hit the Kindle Fire and the Ectaco Jetbook Color. We talk about what the updates do and how this impacts you! Our lead story is your digital primer on ebooks and e-readers and the battleground that is erupting between companies that want your money. We also discuss some of the legal and retail ramifications between these companies and how it is all playing out.
Book Expo America is coming up soon in early June and our entire team will be there live for the full week! We are aiming to deliver the most comprehensive coverage of the event and will have four people there doing interviews, previews, and tons more. We also will be featuring a ton of video footage! You can hear straight from the horses mouth what the companies are working on. If you want to arrange an appointment with us, please use our contact form and we can setup a time.
Finally, we cover all of the latest news in tablets and e-readers from the last week and bring you up to date. A great show as always with music and more, check it out!
Good e-Reader Radio Show – April 21st 2012
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Welcome to the Week in Review edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we give you all of the latest happenings that have transpired at the London Book Fair! We give you a great taste of all the major news that happened there. We also give you the latest information on the Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight. We were in New York during the unveiling and give you our thoughts on why it will be a boss device! Speaking of B&N, the company just revealed their Nook Audio headphones and we break it down.
Good e-Reader Radio – Week in Review March 24th
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Welcome to another installment of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we talk about the New iPad and what it does well. Also, we did a hands on review of the Extaco Jetbook Color and share our thoughts on the hardware limitations. If you are looking for a bite sized edition of the show where we do our week in review, you are in luck! We sum up the entire week of the biggest news in digital publishing, ebooks, tablets, and e-readers!
Good e-Reader Radio March 2nd 2012
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Welcome to an ultra casual edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we talk about the OS2 for the Blackberry Playbook and why most sales people will fool you into thinking you can load Android Apps on it. The process is often quite difficult, but we make it easy with our line of video tutorials and our Playbook App Store! Kindle Lending has reached a new milestone with over 100,000 books in its Prime Lending Library. Kobo has made a new Windows 8 app and we talk a bit about Windows 8 and what it means to tablets. Finally, we wrap it up by going into the latest news form the last two days!
Good e-Reader Radio – Feb 23rd 2012
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The Good e-Reader Radio Show returns today with some news in digital publishing, e-readers and tablet computers! Our lead story is the imminent demise of Pocketbook and the factors contributing to their lackluster performance. Also tons of Playbook OS2 news and what we have done to make your lives easier!
This is a quick bite sized show that will bring you up to speed on all the major news coming out in the last 24 hours! Amazon, Motorola, Blackberry, Asus and tons of other companies have new products out soon and we dive into the semantics! Songs and more, check it out!
Good e-Reader Radio – Review of the Last Four Days of News
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Welcome to another exciting edition of the sleeper hit of the century, the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we bring you up to date on all of the latest news on digital publishing, ebooks, and e-readers from the weekend!
We talk about Overdrive and their new Test Drive tablets they are offering to libraries for their patrons to use or lend out. Also, I talk about why the company needs to look into making its own cheap e-reader and how libraries and schools could benefit. Bookbaby has signed agreements with three new publishing companies and we give you the scoop on why that happened and give you a little overview on their business models. Finally, lots of news on the new Blackberry Os2 update that went in today and an overview on all the new features! If you are interested in the Nook Tablet 2 or 1o inch Kindle Fire, you want to listen to the show!
Good e-Reader Radio – Feb 17 – Day in Review
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Welcome to another exciting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we break down the essential stories that have developed over the course of the last 24 hours! This Broadcast is ideal if you haven’t had a chance to catch up on all the latest news and want an easily digestible audio format to keep abreast.
Today we talk about the Authors Guild and how many people are slamming Amazon for being anti-competitive. These are some humerus quotes on how the book industry should muscle Amazon into being nice. Speaking of Amazon the company intends on building three one million square foot office buildings in downtown Seattle. This will mark the first time they are getting into development and would provide the ideal controlled environment to run their first store selling e-readers and books on a premier ground level location.
We have news on the Kno lawsuit that happened today with one of their publishers cancelling their contract early because they did not like the software logistics. We look into the reasons why and how it bodes for similar companies peddling e-textbooks to students.
Finally, there is tons of other news, but you have to listen to the show to check it out all! Of course there is some great songs to be played and if you love Good e-Reader, then this show will throw you over the deep end of pure unbridled desire!
Good e-Reader Radio – Feb 16 2012
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In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show we talk about some of the days news and what you can expect happening in the digital world later on today! We lead into the show with Ectaco’s deal with a new publishing company to deliver e-textbooks to students to read on the worlds first color e-ink device.
There is lots of e-reader and news today with the Kobo Vox being available at most Best Buy locations in the USA. There was also a massive bust in Ireland as two of the world’s largest ebook piracy websites were shut down. We give you the scoop on who was involved and the process of hunting down the owners. A fun show as always with tons of publishing news on Smashwords and iStorytime, so check it out!
Good e-Reader Radio – How to Setup a VPN and Daily News
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In this edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show, we drop some digital publishing science on you all! We have news from Overdrive on some new publishers who have signed onto their service, such as Disney and Lonely Planet. We also have a great interview with the Aptara CEO Dev Ganesan on his company’s acquisition by UK based iEnergizer. We give you all the of the news on the deal by both parties to give you the 360° story.
Our feature story for this edition is the new Blackberry Playbook 2.0 update coming out this week or next, and what you can expect from it. If you have a Kindle Fire, or want to access HULU+ or Spotify, you might want to listen to this show. I discuss all of the major facets involving setting up your own VPN to change your computer’s IP address to a USA based one. This allows these services to recognize you as living in the USA and giving you full access to all of their content! You want to try a great software suite called HidemyAss! This is the software package we all use at Good e-Reader in order to show you review videos of the device fully working with all of the content. This is useful if you have Kindle Fire and live outside the USA. Software like VPN’s allow your tablet to use your WIFI connection, but Amazon would see you as living in the USA. You can then access their app store and download other content you would not normally be allowed access to.
Of course, we play songs and run down the other news of the day! It’s a fun show as always, so check it out!
Good e-Reader Radio – Feb 14th 2012
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Welcome to another jaw-dropping edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we talk about some new websites that have launched recently that focus on crowd-sourcing and an audbiobook subscription website! We also talk about why libraries are getting the shaft from the big six publishers with their stance on devaluing of digital content by giving it away for free!
This is a great edition of the show where we play songs and talk about the world of digital publishing, ebooks and e-reader news! Lots has happened in the last few days and we bring you some behind the scenes stories on some of the latest news we have been reporting on in the last few days! Don’t forget, today is our free ebook of the week and we just released new versions of our Android News App and our App Store! A great show as always, so check it out.
Good e-Reader Radio – Feb 6 2011
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Today on the Good e-Reader Radio Show we talk about the entire Amazon Publishing Saga and what led up to them creating their own division to print and distribute books. We also look at the past week responses by Barnes and Noble, Indigo and Books-A-Million to not carry any books published by the Seattle company. If you like Twitter and Facebook I talk about why e-readers and indie companies need to adopt more of a social media presence in the whole ebook experience.
Finally we play a few songs, talk about recent industry news and our new android apps. If you love digital publishing and reading technology you will love this new show, check it out.
Good e-Reader Radio Show – Feb 3 2012
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Welcome to another edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! It’s good to be back! We took a brief few month vacation from doing the show as we focused on many different trips and projects in the last few months.
In this edition of the show we talk about all of the latest Android projects we have in the works! The Good e-Reader APP store launched recently and we give you the full details about the initiative and the new standalone app we are working on. Speaking of Android we just released our first Android application that is a mobile version of our own Good e-Reader Blog. We also talk about all the latest news and new e-readers in the works from Barnes and Noble.
MethodApps Adds Extra Content to Books
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At first glance, one might wonder why an app designer was at Digital Book World, especially since they didn’t seem to sure themselves. The staffers made it clear that they were not publishers, just more like app creators who took on challenging projects for a wide range of users. But when they started talking about the extra features that an app can provide to enhance the reading experience, more than one passerby at their booth stopped to listen to what they had to say.
The designers, who readily agree that they do so much more than explore digital books, may have just stumbled on the next great feature in reading of any ilk. The extra content that can be incorporated in an app can include anything from how-to guides in the palm of one’s hand, a recipe app to correlate to a digital cookbook for chefs who don’t want their e-readers on their countertops, even study notes that correspond to a particular work of fiction to aid in book club gatherings or study groups.
More importantly, as authors and publisher look for ever more creative ways to attract the attention of readers who already have large amounts of content to choose from, books are going to have to have a way to stand out from the crowd on the bookstore shelves. Whether a non-fiction print edition from a major publishing house or a genre fiction ebook from a self-published author, contracting the services of a group like MethodApps can easily provide the extra push needed to market a book, especially if the app is sold or distributed in the same sales channel as the book and can therefore be bought at the time of the book purchase. One untapped potential of MethodApps may very well be the serialization of books by providing the book trailer to a pending sequel as an app to accompany the original title.
While MethodApps was exhibiting at the event in order to make users of any sector aware of their services, a wealth of additional content in the form of an app can easily go hand-in-hand with literally any type of book in order to overcome the ever-present problem of book marketing.
