Mario makes way for Shakespeare on Nintendo DS in HarperCollins deal - Times Online Nintendo, the Japanese video games company that brought us Donkey Kong and Mario the Plumber, is to announce a deal with the publisher HarperCollins today to make literary classics available to read on its DS portable games consoles. The 100 Classic Book Collection ranges from Shakespeare and Dickens to Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters. It will cost about £20 and will be available initially only in Britain.

Random House Publishing Group Makes Free Titles Available on Lexcycle’s Stanza Reader | Lexcycle New York, NY - December 8, 2008 – The Random House Publishing Group and Lexcycle, Inc., jointly announced today that Random House and Ballantine will be the first major book publishers to make full-length books available for free on iPhone through Lexcycle Stanza, the most popular electronic book reader for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.

About Penguin 2.0 - Penguin Group (USA) Penguin 2.0 is a new suite of digital and print-based services that offer readers a new way to engage with and discover Penguin content. These collected services will encompass the entire spectrum of a Web 2.0 world by including aspects of customization, personalization, delivery to mobile phones, as well as eBooks and e-only content. In addition, later phases of Penguin 2.0 will offer community functionality and social networking.

E-Reads: Digi-Newspaper Scoreboard: Kindle 28, Kindle Killer 800 It’s a good time to be alive if you’re a tree. Digitally delivered news is gaining momentum and as we turn the corner to 2009 it’s gotten a rocket boost from the Dutch firm iRex Technologies, which announced it has made a deal with NewspaperDirect to deliver 800 newspapers on iRex’s Digital Reader 1000. iRex договорился с NewspaperDirect о том, что с 11 декабря 2008 года пользователям букридера iRex 1000 будет доступна подписка на 800 газет со всего мира в электронном формате для чтения на этом устройстве.

Business Technology : Turns Out Sony E-Book Readers Sell After All Sony for the first time disclosed that it sold 300,000 units of its Reader Digital Book globally since the device launched in October 2006. Via MobileRead.

Если вы пользуетесь программой Stanza на iPod Touch или iPhone для чтения книг, то в ее последней версии при загрузке из online-каталога русских книг появляется надпись: «The ebook file did not contain any data. It may be corrupt». Такое предупреждение выводится в том случае, если не происходит прямой загрузки книги с сервера при явном прописывании пути до файла. Однако есть решение — если зайти в опцию «Online Catalog» и там, нажав на «+», добавить свой каталог, то есть ту папку на сервере, где у вас хранятся тексты (с расширением .

Experimental O’Reilly Ebook iPhone Integration with Stanza - Tools of Change for Publishing Back in August, I showed how to read O’Reilly EPUB ebooks on an iPhone (or iPod Touch) using the popular (and free) Stanza reader app. I’m pleased to announce that you can now directly download EPUB ebooks purchased from O’Reilly on your iPhone to Stanza. The integration is experimental for now, as we iron out some kinks and work to make our own site more iPhone-friendly.

E-Books Have a Future in iTunes | Epicenter from Wired.com Top publishers are revving up their libraries of digital books to capitalize on the presumed success and hype of the Amazon Kindle — actual sales are still based on speculation — but one big name is putting its money on a device that has proven its popularity: the iPhone. “We’re very bullish on that as a platform. We think it’s gonna be a great competitor to Amazon,” said David Langevin, VP and director of electronic markets for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Компьюлента. Новости науки и техники. Издательская компания Random House пополнит свою цифровую библиотеку тысячами книг. Среди прочих в число переведенных в электронную форму попадут произведения Джона Апдайка и Харлана Кобена, а также несколько томов из детской серии Magic Treehouse.

Google Signs a Deal to e-Publish Out-of-Print Books - NYTimes.com: in the first nine months of this year, book sales in the United States fell 1.5 percent, according to the Association of American Publishers То есть продажи бумажных книг упали на 1,5%. Ага.