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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 #eprdctn You guys totally rock!
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