The smartwatch segment is just beginning to take shape, though it seems we are already about to witness the first casualty: Qualcomm Toq devices. Qulcomm’s entry in the smartwatch arena has been much talked about, but the company has stated they are pulling the plug on the device which they claim was never meant to be offered on a commercial basis. Rather, Qualcomm’s President … [Read more...] about Qualcomm Pulls the Plug on the Toq
Archives for September 2013
Split Screen e-Ink Phone Cases Might Just Catch on
e-Readers are a technology that is relatively fringe in nature and has seen its growth stymied by the rise of tablets. E-Ink Holdings is the company primarily responsible for 90% of all e-Paper technology currently on the market. Last quarter, they lost $33 million and has been in constant decline for the past year. What can turn the e-paper industry around and have a greater … [Read more...] about Split Screen e-Ink Phone Cases Might Just Catch on
Bookeen to Release Cybook Odyssey with Front Light and Cybook Ocean
Bookeen is a French company and a European pioneer for electronic books. After having contributed towards the design of the first Cybook and its associated services for Cytale as early as 1998, Laurent Picard and Michaël Dahan created Bookeen in 2003. Since then, Bookeen has become an innovative supplier of e-book reading systems. Bookeen has acquired a unique experience in the … [Read more...] about Bookeen to Release Cybook Odyssey with Front Light and Cybook Ocean
Good e-Reader Radio – eBook Prices Falling, e-Ink cases for phones and iOS 7
Welcome to another exciting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show. Today Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski is joined by Digital Book Worlds own Jeremy Greenfield. Today the two lads talk about a new report that tracks eBook sales for the first six months of 2013 and how the overall landscape has remained flat. Although, Kids eBooks have dramatically fallen since last year by … [Read more...] about Good e-Reader Radio – eBook Prices Falling, e-Ink cases for phones and iOS 7
eBook Sales Experience Miniscule Gains in 2013
Many publishing experts all thought that 2013 would be the year that eBook sales would start to level off and cease the near double digit gains from years prior. The Association of American Publishers has just released its annual report that looks at the first six months of 2013. Overall, eBook sales have increased by a paltry 4.8% from $618 million in 2012 to $647 million in … [Read more...] about eBook Sales Experience Miniscule Gains in 2013
New MOOC FutureLearn Launches in the UK
Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, have been hailed as the future of education. Having initially gained widespread recognition with the launch of Khan Academy, MOOCs offer users a way to learn that can be as simple as brushing up on their skills or as involved as learning an entirely new subject.FutureLearn, new program controlled entirely by Open University, is making … [Read more...] about New MOOC FutureLearn Launches in the UK
Amazon Brings X-Ray to Apple iPad and iPhone
Amazon has just unleashed a massive new update for their Kindle app for iOS7. Users of the iPhone and iPad will finally be able to access X-Ray and Book Extras on their devices. This is the first time X-Ray is available anywhere but Amazon e-Readers and Tablets.X-Ray is a popular feature that gives you an indication of the people, places, and things in a particular novel. … [Read more...] about Amazon Brings X-Ray to Apple iPad and iPhone
Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to OverDrive's member libraries for a predetermined period of time … [Read more...] about Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
World Book Encyclopedia to Offer Subscription Plan to Schools, Libraries
As well-known and highly respected publishing entities like newspapers and reference books struggle to compete with free information available on the internet, publishers of these types of content are forced to find new ways to stay relevant and more importantly, to stay in business. With the announcement last year the the two-hundred-plus-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica … [Read more...] about World Book Encyclopedia to Offer Subscription Plan to Schools, Libraries
Frankfurt Book Fair Opens to Authors
As the countdown to one of the largest and oldest publishing industry events in the world begins, publishing industry professionals are focusing on the Frankfurt Book Fair. One of the more interesting aspects of this year's staging, though, is that an unheard of number of authors appear to be attending what was traditionally considered to be strictly a rights' fair, one of the … [Read more...] about Frankfurt Book Fair Opens to Authors
Livrada, Hooks Book Events Bundle Print and eBook Options
Livrada, the ebook distribution platform that first made headlines by creating an innovative way for people to buy ebooks in major retail chain stores via specifically branded gift cards for individual titles, has announced this week its partnership with Hooks Book Events to enable event attendees to select a print or ebook edition of titles available for sale at the event when … [Read more...] about Livrada, Hooks Book Events Bundle Print and eBook Options
Kobo Donates 3,500 e-Readers to Canadian Native Youth
Kobo has engaged in a new initiative that will see close to 3,500 Touch e-Readers distributed to Native youth in Canada. The company is also contributing close to $100,000 to to develop a program in conjunction with Free The Children to help improve literacy.Kobo and Free The Children are committed to empowering youth across Canada to develop their imaginations throughout … [Read more...] about Kobo Donates 3,500 e-Readers to Canadian Native Youth
Injustice: Gods Among Us Comes to an End, for Now
If you follow our weekly Digital Comics Best Seller List posts, you know that Tom Taylor's Injustice: Gods Among Us is typically one of the top-selling comics on every platform, and often the individual issues make up more than half of the top ten.So it was rather startling news when DC announced yesterday that the series is going on hiatus for the rest of the year. This … [Read more...] about Injustice: Gods Among Us Comes to an End, for Now
Sony PRS-T3 Now Available at Shop e-Readers
The Sony PRS-T3 e-Reader has just been released and has the best annotation and note taking functionalities on the market. We recently reviewed this unit and were impressed by the eBook experience and how it handles PDF files. Some people also really like physical page turn buttons, which is somewhat of a lost art with most devices on the market. Currently this device is not … [Read more...] about Sony PRS-T3 Now Available at Shop e-Readers