Corning has just announced Gorilla Glass 6, the screen technology that is on every flagship Android and Apple phone. Many phones not only have a glass screen on the front, but the back too. This year, about 28 percent of all phones sold -- and nearly 100 percent of pricey, high-end phones -- will have glass on the back … [Read more...]
DC Universe launching this fall and will have thousands of 4K digital comics
DC Universe is a new online streaming service that will have hundreds of television episodes, movies and comics. They will be be producing a ton of original content and will be available this fall. It will cost $7.99 a month or $74.99 for an annual subscription, if you decide to pre-order it now you will get the first … [Read more...]
Onyx Boox Note S available July 26th
Onyx Boox has confirmed that the Boox Note S will be available on July 26th 2018. This device is a smaller version of the wildly successful 10.3 inch Note that came out late last year. It is retailing for $389 and you can order it from Amazon or the Good e-Reader Store. The Onyx Boox Note S features a 9.7 inch E Ink … [Read more...]
Brilliance Audio is closing their audiobook store
Brilliance Audio was founded in 1984 and publishes audio books for consumers, resellers, and librarians in the United States. It produces and manufactures unabridged and abridged recordings on compact discs MP3's and digital downloads. In addition, the company produces audio books for other spoken-word audio book … [Read more...]
Who will be the next company to get into the e-reader business?
Ten years ago e-readers started to gain mainstream popularity with the advent of the Amazon Kindle and within a few short years dozens of companies started to release their own hardware. The vast majority of them only sold the e-reader and offered no avenue to purchase ebooks or other digital content. The e-reader … [Read more...]
Do libraries have to worry if they do business with RB Digital?
Overdrive is the number one digital content distributor to libraries in Canada and the United States. They offer audiobooks, ebooks, music and video and everyone else is fighting for the scraps. Recorded Books specialized in audiobook content and in order to become a major player, they rebranded themselves as RB … [Read more...]
Comic and Graphic Novel sales tumbled 6.5% in 2017
Comic book and graphic novels had a dismal year in Canada and the United States. Sales decreased by 6.5% in 2017 and most of the declines were attributed to fewer people buying comics from the store or newsstand. Total comics and graphic novel sales to consumers in the U.S. and Canada generated $1.015 billion, a $70 … [Read more...]
The hot new trend in manga is elderly people
The big new trend in digital manga and print is elderly people. Many publishers and independent artists are incorporating people between 60 and 80 as leading characters. The popularity of these characters reflect anxieties shared by all people about how to make post-retirement life meaningful and cope with nursing care … [Read more...]
TOR is delaying front-list ebooks on Overdrive
TOR is one of the largest science fiction and fantasy publishers in the world and they have quietly implemented a new policy. They are now delaying submitting all front-list titles to Overdrive and will only make them available once they have been out for a minimum of four months. The publisher is hoping to maximize … [Read more...]
Amazon crashed as soon as Prime Day Started
Amazon Prime Day is number online online shopping period for the summer and there are plenty of deals to be had. The Amazon website buckled under the pressure of millions of people visiting the site at once and it crashed for an hour. The outage also affected Prime Music and Prime Video. The outage only affected … [Read more...]
Review of the Sony Digital Paper DPT-CP1
The brand new Sony Digital Paper DPT-CP1 is the companies first 10.3 inch model and it is fairly comparable to the 13.3 inch version. It is running the exact same operating system and firmware, so there are no cool little features that make it distinctive. Sony primarily developed this model because they wanted a low … [Read more...]
Reading books is on the decline
Reading ebooks and print are on the decline and everyone involved in retail and the publishing industry are trying to figure out why. Are people simply not reading for pleasure anymore and consuming original Netflix content or listening to Spotify? What we do know is that between 2003 and 2016, the amount of time that … [Read more...]