Sony Cuts Prices on E-Books and Unveils Readers - NYTimes.com
Sony Electronics plans to announce on Tuesday that it is lowering prices for new and bestselling books in its e-book store, to $9.99 from $11.99. Sony is also introducing two new electronic reading devices: the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition. They will sell for $199 and $299 respectively and will go on sale at the end of August.
Sigil, the ePub editor - MobileRead Forums
# Free and open source software under GPLv3 # Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac # Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16 # Full EPUB spec support # WYSIWYG editing # Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View # Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each # Table Of Contents editor # Multi-level TOC support # Book View fully supports the display any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec # SVG support # Basic XPGT support # Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode # Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time # Currently exports EPUB and SGF (Sigil native format); more will be added with time # Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually ) # An actually usable user interface # Native C++ application # Bugs # And a lot more…
‘PW’ For Sale - 7/30/2009 7:32:00 AM - Publishers Weekly
Reed Business Information is putting Publishers Weekly and its affiliated publications, Library Journal and School Library Journal, up for sale. The sale of the group is part of RBI’s strategy to divest most of its trade magazines in the U.S. Last year, Reed Elsevier, parent company of RBI, tried to sell all of RBI but dropped the sale when it couldn’t get the price it wanted in a depressed market for media properties.
E-book review: iPhone: The Missing Manual | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
One thing that might keep many people from even considering an appbook regardless of price is the idea of having it tied to an app. Some might find only ever being able to read it on your iPhone, or the app taking up one of a (relatively) finite number of available icon spaces to be insurmountable handicaps, and pass up a book that they otherwise might have bought.
Будущее книжной индустрии | Блог Михаила Иванова
И только традиционные издатели потеряют свое былое влияние и большие деньги. Произойдет редистрибуция ценности на этом рынке. От издательств и традиционных книжных магазинов ценность перейдет к создателям платформы, читателям и авторам.
Вероятно, в России этот переход займет больше времени, но он неизбежен.
Автор - руководитель издательства «Манн, Иванов и Фербер».
Introducing the Shortcovers ePUB Conversion Program — Shortcovers
Shortcovers is excited to announce a new service - the Shortcovers Publisher Conversion Program. Publishers can provide us with their digital source files - PDFs, Quark files, InDesign, .doc, .rtf - and for a shockingly low fee*, we’ll convert them into ePUB files, load them up into Shortcovers and then give back the ePUB file so the publisher can send it off to other vendors who also accept ePUB files.
AT&T to Power Plastic Logic E-Reader - Digits - WSJ
AT&T said Wednesday that it will provide the 3G data connectivity for Plastic Logic’s e-reader when the device becomes available next year.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
Barnes & Noble Launches World’s Largest eBookstore Introduces “Every Device” Strategy Upgrades eReader Application Free Downloads Announces eBookstore Partnership with Plastic Logic New York, New York – July 20, 2009 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, announced today the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks), the world’s largest eBookstore, on Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), enabling customers to buy eBooks and read them on a wide range of platforms, including the iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry® smartphones, as well as most Windows® and Mac® laptops or full-sized desktop computers.
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Democratic Group’s Proposal: Give Each Student a Kindle - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Несколько влиятельных членов Демократической партии США выступили с инициативой раздать устройства для чтения электронных книг (типа Amazon Kindle) каждому учащемуся в стране. Главный довод в пользу такого решения — значительная экономия на печати учебников , а также забота об окружающей среде. «Не нужно ждать 10-20 лет, чтобы приступить к реализации программы будущего, которой все равно или поздно придется заняться.