Scribd has announced today that they now have over 300,000 titles in their library. They are the second most popular platform next to the Kindle Lending Library, which has 475,000 eBooks. Scribd is considered the definitive Netflix for eBooks and is backed by HarperCollins. Currently Scribd is one of the more popular eBook subscription platforms out there, that let you read … [Read more...] about Scribd Announces They Now Have 300,000 eBooks
Archives for February 2014
Put on your Chefs Hat with the Netchef Tablet
The Netchef tablet, by Sungale is the first time a tablet was developed to resemble a classic cooking appliance. This device is brimming with recipes that lay out what you need to buy and even shows videos of exactly how to cook it, step by step. When it comes to tablets in the kitchen, this seems to be a fairly viable product. Hardware The Netchef is built into a very … [Read more...] about Put on your Chefs Hat with the Netchef Tablet
Towerbabel and the Launch of Social Writing
For the past several years, social reading has been an undercurrent of the possibilities of digital publishing and ebooks. A number of companies have been launched since as early as 2010 to encourage readers with tools that make it easy to share in the discussion of a book across their social networks--and even with strangers--within the digital pages of a book. Companies like … [Read more...] about Towerbabel and the Launch of Social Writing
More News on Authors Behaving Badly, Using Well-Known Authors’ Names as Pseudonyms
In an interesting chain of events, ebook retailers' crackdown on erotica titles that were mislabeled as children's content--intentionally or not--led to another crackdown of sorts. During the process of examining the titles in their online stores more carefully, retailers like Amazon enforced an existing aspect of their terms and conditions that prohibits using famous book … [Read more...] about More News on Authors Behaving Badly, Using Well-Known Authors’ Names as Pseudonyms
Blackberry Outlines Growth Strategies for 2014
Blackberry has announced that they are working on two new phones that will be released sometime in 2014. Their growth strategy is low-cost phones that build upon the trials and errors of the Q10 and Z10, the first devices to use the Android friendly Blackberry 10 OS. The first phone the company talked about during the popular Mobile World Congress conference was the Z3, … [Read more...] about Blackberry Outlines Growth Strategies for 2014
Angry Customers Raise Valid Points about Sony Closing Reader Store and Switching to Kobo
Sony can be considered the first mainstream company to get involved in the e-reader space. They had models on the market at least a full year before Amazon even announced the first Kindle. A few weeks ago a bombshell announcement was made that Sony was closing their online Reader Store and transitioning all of their North American customers to Kobo. Users, are starting to … [Read more...] about Angry Customers Raise Valid Points about Sony Closing Reader Store and Switching to Kobo
New Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 is the Thinnest And Lightest 10 Inch Tablet
Sony has a lot going on its smartphone and tablet business now that it has let gone of its PC division. In such a backdrop, the company has launched the Xperia Z2 tablet at the MWC, which is its first after having sold its VAIO PC business. Also as if the Xperia Tablet Z wasn’t already thin and light enough, the latest Xperia Z2 has been made even slimmer and lighter than its … [Read more...] about New Sony Xperia Tablet Z2 is the Thinnest And Lightest 10 Inch Tablet
Barnes and Noble has Lost Over 1 Billion Dollars on Nook
Barnes and Noble is a company in transition, when it comes to their floundering Nook Media division. In the last two months they have announced the departures of Jim Hilt - Vice President of eBooks, digital products director Jamie Iannone and VP of digital products Bill Saperstein. A myriad of other people have left, including the head of accessories and most of the hardware … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble has Lost Over 1 Billion Dollars on Nook
McGraw-Hill Professional Offers eBooks to Libraries through Axis 360
School and public libraries may have gotten a boost today through a new agreement between McGraw-Hill Professional and Baker & Taylor. This agreement will make more than 5,000 technical, medical, and professional titles available for ebook lending; more than 700 of these titles are recently published works. “We are at the forefront of the digital transformation in … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Professional Offers eBooks to Libraries through Axis 360