Episode 97

Posted on February 27th, 2013 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 97


News

  • Amazon & pubs being sued by indie bookstores in NY
    www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/20/drm-lawsuit-independent-bookstores-amazon_n_2727519.html
    www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/02/20/indie-bookstores-file-anti-trust-lawsuit-against-amazon-big-6-pubishers
    Cory Doctorow’s take on it
  • Yotaphone to launch in Russia
  • Kindle Pub Tools 2.8
  • Macmillan decides to quit the DOJ case. Apple still in
  • Apple patents a new book search toolbar
  • This is a great trick, but I love Nate’s reaction:
  • DOJ approves Penguin/Random House merger
  • Inkling Habitat now free to use
  • B&N CEO Len Riggio has filed SEC paperwork to split off the 689 B&N stores and take them private, apart from the Nook and B&N College businesses
  • Amazon cutting back on how many free eBooks their Associates can link to

Feedback

  • Howard Cornett
  • Tom Semple

Random Tweet of the Week

  • @lizcastro: +1 RT @lemay: Hell is other people controlling your CSS. #eprdctn

Upcoming Events

  • PEPCON 2013 – use discount code NINJA to save $25

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail: info@ebookninjas.com
Follow us on Twitter:

  • @eBookArchitects
  • @eBookNinjas
  • @jtallent
  • @PenguinPowered
  • @cdcasey

A service of eBook Architects, a division of Firebrand Technologies
Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

Read More

Episode 96 – Fran Toolan

Posted on February 15th, 2013 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 96 – Fran Toolan


Guest

  • Fran Toolan of Firebrand Technologies

News

  • Why no, the latest Paperwhite update did NOT fix the image bug.
  • Kindle iOS update:
    Multicolor highlights
    Book end actions – when done with a book, Tweet or FB it, write a review, see other recommendations
    brightness stays constant
  • Readmill is released
  • Libraries appear to be getting gouged
  • eBooks to libraries by law?
  • Kobo does preordering
  • Bookish launches
  • Paperwhite going global
  • O’Reilly starts producing Epub3
  • Amazon patents re-selling used goods
  • Subway station in Bucharest sells ebooks

Discussion

  • TOC
  • Firebrand + eBook Architects

Random Tweet of the Week

  • @sandersk: Updated version of my free ebook HTML5 for Publishers available now, with new chaps on MathML & SVG. Download here: oreil.ly/Vmdjfm
  • also online: chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000770

Upcoming Events

  • PEPCON 2013 – use discount code NINJA

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail: info@ebookninjas.com
Follow us on Twitter:

  • @eBookArchitects
  • @eBookNinjas
  • @jtallent
  • @PenguinPowered
  • @cdcasey
  • @ftoolan

A service of eBook Architects
Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

Read More

Episode 95

Posted on January 24th, 2013 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 95


News

  • How was DBW, anyway?
  • Piracy studies and thoughts
    www.digitalbookworld.com/2013/does-piracy-hurt-digital-content-sales-yes/
    www.magellanmediapartners.com/index.php/mmcp/article/market_failures#When:11:00:11Z
  • 54% of kids in the US now read eBooks
  • Random House’s Infographic
  • First bookless public library coming
  • Triton 2 frontlit
  • Amazon looking to buy the Liquavista? (electrowetting screen tech).
    www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/01/21/amazon-is-going-to-buy-liquavista/
    www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/01/22/a-close-look-at-liquavistas-latest-electrowetting-screen-tech-video
  • Samsung OLEDs
  • Kobo claims 20% of global ereader market
  • Cybook Odessy review
  • Kindle Paperwhite gets an update
  • Kindles now available in Canada

Feedback

  • Tom Semple
  • Allison Morris, state of printers: www.educationnews.org/technology/never-print-again/

Random Tweet of the Week

  • MT: @eBookNoir: very nice… i’d like one day to see ability to animate icon on bookshelf, talk abt a visual enticement then.. #eprdctn

Upcoming Events

  • TOCCON 2013
  • PEPCON 2013

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail: info@ebookninjas.com
Follow us on Twitter:

  • @eBookArchitects
  • @eBookNinjas
  • @jtallent
  • @PenguinPowered
  • @cdcasey

A service of eBook Architects
Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

Read More

Episode 94 – John Rodzvilla of Emerson College

Posted on January 11th, 2013 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 94 – John Rodzvilla of Emerson College


Special Guest

  • John Rodzvilla, professor at Emerson College

News

  • Shop for ebooks at the grocery store?
  • Amazon AutoRip for CDs
  • Kindle Touch gets updated
  • Flexible e-paper prototypes
  • Self-promotion via bit torrent works for Tim Ferris
  • Lulu drops DRM

Discussion

  • Emerson’s Digital Publishing program
    Department: www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/writing-literature-publishing
    Graduate Program: www.emerson.edu/academics/departments/writing-literature-publishing/graduate-degrees
  • Course Resources:
    Spring 2013 Undergrad Ebook pages.emerson.edu/faculty/j/john_rodzvilla/pb491/
    Spring 2013 Overivew Course pages.emerson.edu/faculty/j/john_rodzvilla/pb692/
    Spring 2013 Topics Class pages.emerson.edu/faculty/j/john_rodzvilla/pb694/

Feedback

  • R. Scot Johns KF8 funtionality table: authoradventures.blogspot.com/2013/01/kindle-fixed-layout-functionality.html

Random Tweet of the Week

  • @lizcastro: @cdcasey I saw a book that wouldn’t let you page to the next chapter on NOOK. Problem was images. One solution was PNG, IIRC. #eprdctn

Upcoming Events

  • DBW 2013
  • TOCCON 2013
  • PEPCON 2013

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail: info@ebookninjas.com
Follow us on Twitter:

  • @eBookArchitects
  • @eBookNinjas
  • @jtallent
  • @PenguinPowered
  • @cdcasey
  • @rodzvilla

A service of eBook Architects
Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

Read More

Episode 93 – Jeremy Greenfield

Posted on January 3rd, 2013 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 93 – Jeremy Greenfield


Special Guest

  • Jeremy Greenfield, managing editor of Digital Book World

News of 2012

  • Pearson invests $90 million in Nook.
  • BN & Nook sales down
  • According to eMarketer (hmmmm), eink devices are doing fine
  • New records set for device activations
  • Print books are going to die, and it is all eBooks’ fault; But at least one blogger has called foul
  • Smashwords allows direct uploading of epub files
  • DBW’s 10 bold predictions

Random Fedback Tweet of the Week

  • @_mchogan: Releasing work into the public domain? Consider the CC0 license. #eprdctn #CC0 t.co/AmFNa6q2

Upcoming Events

  • DBW 2013
  • TOCCON 2013
  • PEPCON 2013

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail: info@ebookninjas.com
Follow us on Twitter:

  • @eBookArchitects
  • @eBookNinjas
  • @jtallent
  • @PenguinPowered
  • @cdcasey
  • @JDGsaid

A service of eBook Architects
Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

Read More

Episode 92 – Year in Review 2012 with Joanna Cabot

Posted on December 20th, 2012 by admin  |  Comments Off

Episode 92 – Year in Review 2012 with Joanna Cabot


Special Guest

  • Joanna Cabot of Teleread

News of 2012

January

  • iBooks Author released
  • Amazon releases Kindle Format 8 tools and info.
  • IDPF website now hosts an ePub3 validator.

Febraury

  • Nook tablet released
  • Readium announced
  • Apple updates the iBooks Author EULA to make it clear you just can’t use the *.ibooks file.

March

  • Kindle makes inroads in Japan
  • KDP select hits 100,00 title mark
  • The new iPad
  • Encyclopedia Britannica stops printing. It’s Okay. Really.
  • Pottermore finally releases Harry Potter eBooks. Interesting sales approach, with some new kinds of connections to the eBook retailers.

April

  • Amazon released an update to KindleGen that allows the use of display:none in Mobipocket CSS
  • Google Books end retail partner program
  • Nook Glowlight released
  • KF8 support comes to Kindle Touch
  • DOJ files antitrust suit against Apple, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, and Macmillan

May

  • 3M launches a Cloud Library for eBook lending.

June

  • K4 and Kindle for iOS get full KF8 support
  • Kobo announces writing life
  • BISG releases ePub3 support grid.
  • Ingram announces ePub3 support in Vitalsource
  • eBook sales surpass hardcover
  • Microsoft Surface announced

July

  • Kobo devices get interface update
  • Penguin purchases Author Solutions
  • Qualcomm suspending Mirasol screen development, moving to a licensing model
  • The Nexus 7 comes in
  • New Editor-in-Chief at Teleread: Dan Eldridge

August

  • EBN actually does 4 episodes
  • Sony releases the PRS-T2. Not really amazing. Still too expensive
  • FAA starts taking comments about Kindle on airplane use

September

  • Kobo releases new devices: Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Arc. However, we have still not seen them in the US
    goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/exclusive-kobo-glo-kobo-mini-and-kobo-arc-announced
    goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/hands-on-review-of-the-kobo-arc/
  • Amazon announces new Kindle devices
  • Amazon has updated the Kindle 3 (Keyboard) with KF8 support
  • B&N launching its own video service to compete with Amazon and Apple
  • B&N announces the Nook HD and the Nook HD+
    www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/09/26/barnes-noble-launches-the-first-family-friendly-media-tablet/
  • J. K. Rowling’s new book had some major formatting issues
    paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/
    www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-public-outcry-over-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel-and-the-important-lesson-publishers-can-learn-from-it

October

  • EBN Fail – one episode
  • Google and publishers settle in book scanning case
  • Amazon Kindle DX quietly killed off
  • Amazon rumored to be in talks to buy Texas Instruments’ OMAPS CPU unit
  • Amazon launches Kindle Whispercast
  • Apple press announcement: iPad4, iPad Mini, updates to iBooks (3.0) and iBooks Author
  • Nexus 4 phone and Nexus 10 tablet released. Nexus 7 updated with new specs and options

November

  • CEA says tablet ownership has doubled in one year
  • Powell’s Books signs up with Kobo to replace Google eBook store
  • Amazon tests out monthly Prime membership
  • Illegal to break DRM in Canada

December

  • Dual-screen phone released in Russia
  • Amazon launches Kindle store in China, iOS and Android only
  • Penguin settles with DOJ
  • Helicon’s epub 3 reading app

Predictions

  • Joanna: International market get RESPECT; Kindle Free Time Unlimited (subscription service) take off; Retina Display iPad Mini; apps maturing
  • Chris: if you are not comfortable with ePub 3 format you will be left behind; eInk will not die out, will continue to see them throughout the year, upgrades to the devices
  • Toby: Major eInk color screen released (same as last year) — reflective, not the new low-power LCD
  • Joshua: eBook creation advancements – ID 6.5, still no major upgrades like index support; More tools like Vook; No massive device improvements; Sony going down, next couple of years out of ebook space; Kindle 1 (USA);

Random Fedback Tweet of the Week

  • @__mharrison__: @jtallent (just listened to the latest podcast) FYI, Kobo already supports JS (in epub2) #eprdctn
  • @__mharrison__: @rcgordon @jtallent @eprdctn I guess I should qualify my statement: JS works on the Kobo Android app… #eprdctn

Upcoming Events

  • TOCCON 2013
  • PEPCON 2013

Rate us on iTunes.
Send us mail:

  • info@ebookninjas.com
  • Follow us on Twitter:

    • @eBookArchitects
    • @eBookNinjas
    • @jtallent
    • @PenguinPowered
    • @cdcasey
    • @ficbot

    A service of

  • ebookarchitects.com
  • Music is Night Riders by C.J. Rogers and is available under a CC 3.0 license

    Read More

    Episode 91

    Posted on December 14th, 2012 by admin  |  Comments Off

    Episode 91


    News

    • Hachette to support ePub 3
    • Kobo to fully support EPUB 3
    • Launches
      • Kobo launches in Brazil
      • So does Amazon
      • And Google
      • Amazon also launched in Canada.
      • Google launched in Russia
      • Nook going global
    • Nook Simple Touch price drop
    • EReader shipments dropping
      • www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/12/10/ereader-shipments-expected-to-drop-in-2013/#.UMewEIPAd8E
      • www.geeksaresexy.net/2012/12/13/analysts-issue-last-rites-for-e-readers/
    • Agency/Price Fixing News
      • EU price-fixing agreement
      • Simon & Schuster ends Agency pricing
    • The Daily has been shut down
    • Baen expanding to Amazon for better eBook distribution.

    Random Tweet of the Week

    • @brendan_gannon: These e-readers are a big disappointment. I’ve got dozens of books on my Kindle and as far as I can tell it hasn’t read a single one.
    • @eBookArtisans: @cdcasey Every time I use it (Incrementor), I’m so happy! And thanks, @PenguinPowered spacer #eprdctn You guys totally rock!
      Incrementor: https://github.com/eBookArchitects/Incrementor

    Upcoming Events

    • TOCCON 2013
    • PEPCON 2013

    Rate us on iTunes.
    Send us mail:

  • i
  • gipoco.com is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its contents. This is a safe-cache copy of the original web site.