Eric Schmidt and French President François Hollande announced a new digital publishing deal today. Google is setting up a €60 million innovation fund to help French News Websites and other publishers monetize their online contentEuropean publishers and Google have had contentious interactions during the last year. Publishers in France, Germany, and Italy petitioned their … [Read more...] about Google Starts French Digital Publishing Innovation Program
e-Ink Technology Transitions from eReader Screens to Keyboards
e-Ink Holdings is best known for producing the easy to read screens found in your favorite e-readers. Everything from the Kindle Paperwhite to the Kobo Glo all use these screens. They draw less power and are able to display images without hampering battery life. Typically, an e-reader lasts months without a re-charge. Concept design firm Yanko might have developed the next mega … [Read more...] about e-Ink Technology Transitions from eReader Screens to Keyboards
Digital Publishing and Tech Startups Often Survive with No VC Funding
The Digital Publishing and tech industry has no shortage of startups in the e-reader and tablet world. New companies break onto the scene on the regular basis. Some fade into obscurity and some hope to cash in on popular trends. According to a recent report, out of the the 2,277 companies surveyed, 76% of them were totally self-financed before being acquired by larger … [Read more...] about Digital Publishing and Tech Startups Often Survive with No VC Funding
BB10 Launch Comprises of 28,000 Converted Android Apps
Blackberry World is the content distribution system that will allow owners of the new BB10 smartphones to download and pay for apps. Blackberry is standing on its soapbox, proclaiming that it has 70,000 apps on the first day of launch. This means that Blackberry World is the largest launching app store in the history of digital content. The real story is that 28,000 of these … [Read more...] about BB10 Launch Comprises of 28,000 Converted Android Apps
Txtr Beagle e-Reader Hits the FCC
The Txtr Beagle e-Reader is one of the most affordable and smallest devices we have ever seen. We were the first website to bring you the first hands on review of the first reader released by the Berlin, Germany based company. Today, the Beagle took one step closer to commercial reality with a stop by the FCC in the US.The FCC is basically just testing out the Bluetooth … [Read more...] about Txtr Beagle e-Reader Hits the FCC
Adobe Indesign Plugin CircularFLO Exports eBooks in EPUB3 and KF8
London, England based Circular Software originally released a plugin for Adobe Indesign in late 2011. It is quickly becoming the tool of choice for major publishers such as Hachette because of the ability to export ebooks in both Kindle Format 8 and EPUB3.Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is one of the most expansive ebook creation programs in the world. It provides advanced … [Read more...] about Adobe Indesign Plugin CircularFLO Exports eBooks in EPUB3 and KF8
Nook and Kindle Lending Site eBookFling Up for Sale
eBook lending clubs have been around the last three years and many of the websites have been sold due to the sheer amount of users attracted to Amazon Prime. One of the leading sites, Lendle, was sold last may for six figures and today eBookFling is on the market.eBookFling was one of the first websites to lend both Kindle and Nook books. It originally launched in 2011 and … [Read more...] about Nook and Kindle Lending Site eBookFling Up for Sale
Amazon Now Let’s Third Party Companies Advertise on Kindle e-Readers
Amazon is no stranger to the world of advertising, with the Seattle based company launching their own network six years ago. The company is forging ahead with plans to allow companies to run targeted adds on the entire line of Kindle Fire Tablets and e-Readers.Amazon has some very big data that it is using to leverage themselves against the likes of Facebook, Bing and … [Read more...] about Amazon Now Let’s Third Party Companies Advertise on Kindle e-Readers
Blackberry World Goes Live
Last year Google gravitated from its Google Android Market moniker and switched to Google Play. Research in Motion followed suit and renamed its Blackberry APP World to just Blackberry World. The main website is now live for anyone to checkout and Playbook owners will get pushed the new update next week. If you still have a Blackberry Smartphone, the revised market should be … [Read more...] about Blackberry World Goes Live
dotdotdot Wants to Be Your Mobile Library
Berlin based dotdotdot has been working on a project for the last ten months that could be your personal digital library for all texts regardless where they come from. Read texts from webpages, like blog posts or articles, in a distraction-free format on your iPad, iPhone, or web-based PC. When you import webtexts via our browser, bookmarklet, dotdotdot clears away everything … [Read more...] about dotdotdot Wants to Be Your Mobile Library
Breaking: Overdrive to Bring Digital Manga to Libraries
During the recent American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference, we received the news that Overdrive is working on distribution agreements with Kondansha, Shogakukan, and other Japanese Manga publishers. The end result will see thousands of Manga titles available to libraries to integrate into their catalogs.CEO of Overdrive Steve Potash was in Japan a few weeks ago, … [Read more...] about Breaking: Overdrive to Bring Digital Manga to Libraries
Barnes and Noble to Close 239 Bookstores
Barnes and Noble CEO chief executive Mitchell Klipper publicly announced that his company will close a number of stores in the next ten years. Currently B&N operates 689 bookshops in the US and also 674 college stores. The company intends on trimming the fat and down scaling to 450 retail locations.Mitcell recently talked to the Wall Street Journal and commented, "You … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble to Close 239 Bookstores
American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference Wrap-Up
The American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference is almost wrapped up, and Good e-Reader was live on the scene. We talked to many of the leading digital publishing companies focused on the modern library, such as 3M, Overdrive, Zinio, Recorded Books, and a few others. This year, many of the leading publishers, such as Scholastic, Harper Collins, Penguin, and Macmillian, … [Read more...] about American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference Wrap-Up
Samsung Readers Hub 2.0 Now Supports EPUB3
Samsung has updated the seminal Readers Hub app to now support ePub3. The company has also developed its own self-publishing portal, which allows publishers to track, upload, and manage their ebooks. Right now, the app is only available for users on the Readers Hub 2.0, which is preloaded on the Samsung Galaxy Note II. Galaxy S III, Galaxy Note 10.1, and Galaxy … [Read more...] about Samsung Readers Hub 2.0 Now Supports EPUB3