Sony announced Thursday morning that it will sell subscriptions to the digital edition of the Journal as well as a daily summary of news events available only to owners of the Sony device. In addition, users will be able to subscribe to a daily summary of news stories and columns from MarketWatch.com, which like the Journal is owned by Dow Jones & Co.
The Journal summary will cost $5 a month on top of the $14.
When I’m looking for a new book on my Kindle and told I have to wait four months for the e-book version, I won’t be heading to the bookstore. Instead, I’ll click the back button and buy one of the 360,000 other e-books available now.
via bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Time Out creates eBooks for city guides, takes the Murdoch paid-for route | Tnooz
Just days after Travellerspoint revealed its simplistic, on-demand email city and country guides, social and travel publishing giant Time Out unveils its own take on the on-the-go guides.
The publisher’s popular city guides are in the process of being formatted for eReaders, Blackberry, PDA and web and will available for download from its own store and other online retailers this month.
http://www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/11/05/the-art-of-community-is-1-culture-book-on-amazon-com/
Check out this website I found at ebooks.addall.com
EA Extranet: “EA ANNOUNCES FLIPS ON THE NINTENDO DS”
Guildford, UK – 9th October 2009 – Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announces the development of FLIPS™, an innovative new book range created for the Nintendo DS™. FLIPS has been designed to give children of all ages a fun new way to read their favorite books. EA has worked with some of the UK’s leading publishers of children’s books and magazines, including Egmont and Penguin Publishing, to bring modern classic titles from critically acclaimed authors such as Cathy Cassidy, Eoin Colfer, Enid Blyton, and the various writers from the popular boys series, ‘Too Ghoul for School’ to the DS.
Viral Loop: Using Facebook and the iPhone to promote something called a ‘book’
Adam Penenberg, who’s a contributing writer over at Fast Company magazine (and an old professor of mine from back in my NYU days), has developed an iPhone and Facebook App called “Viral Loop” to help raise awareness of his latest book, Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves. Let’s take a look.
пятница, 18 сентября 2009 года, 09.35
Владимир Харитонов Кроссплатформенное чириканье
«Книгу про Twitter» можно купить и читать на чём угодно
Tim O’Reilly and Sarah Milstein. The Twitter Book. O’Reilly, 2009. Подробнее
Read an E-Book Week - March 8 - 14, 2009
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.