Author Archive for ‘Spiros Kotsialos’
All quality eReaders of today use eInk technology as it is the only screen surface that gives you a non backlight, high resolution and long battery life experience. This is required in order to give an acceptable e-reading experience. I love this technology but am coming to the realisation that there are other screen technologies that [...]
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Tags: book, ebook, eReader, oled
Telco’s have recently started to offer business consolidated wireless plans where they can purchase for instance 40 gigabytes a month and have as many simm card’s as they want attached to it. Today individuals are still locked into one device, one simm plans. Telco’s seems to be ever dominated by the device, probably because of [...]
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E-Books value for Money
Average Music Time: 4 Minutes Average time to read a book: 3 hours +
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Kindle 2
Check out the news on Kindle 2. seems more like a chance to make some minor modifications than a significant upgrade. http://gizmodo.com/5058968/amazons-kindle-2-suddenly-appears
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eBooks in the UK
Ebooks beginning to reach UK readers An interesting article from the Guardian in the UK, showing Waterstone’s sold 30,000 Sony Readers in the first three months. Only 75,000 eBooks were downloaded in the same period. The eBooks sold vs eBooks downloaded brings into question; How many of the units sold are just presents that people will never [...]
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New XDA Flint a education Ebook?
The new O2 is in effect a miniature laptop (using Windows Mobile 6.1) / mobile phone aimed at the education market. People say that it is envisaged that students would download ebooks to it as well as use it for their classroom studies. I don’t think it is going to be a big player in [...]
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Tags: education, O2
Today Amazon US provides their e-book reader with a wireless mobile connection so you can download books from everywhere. There is lots of information out there at the moment that Verizon in the US are going to open their network up to other eBook vendors. I find it fascinating wireless now seems to be seen [...]
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Tags: DRM, wireless
First Ever Ebook Signing
Read this article to see a new way to look at book signings in the day of the e-book. Texas’ First Ever Ebook Signing To Be Held At The Blanco Public Library, Saturday, Jan 3 Must also bring into question will the personalisation of e-book content in the future be a key to its success?
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It’s the beginning of another digital revolution . . . maybe. Tensions are high as publishers wonder what effect the increasingly sophisticated eBook will have on traditional book production and reading. It’s a tussle between old and new; pulp and screens; busses and bathtubs. Read this article in the North Short News by Caroline Skelton [...]
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Interesting article at the Cabin.Net on children’s books having a bright digital future I agree with the article and am interested on how it relates to e-books and the way that the publishing industry will produce children’s content in the future. My thoughts are that the e-book device for children will be very different to [...]
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