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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 [...]


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 [...]


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?


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 [...]


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 [...]


E-Book Formats

23Dec08

There are so many e-book formats out there today it gets confusing but thankfully with the establishment of the widely supported EPub format it is starting to become clear. If you are publishing any type of e-book today you would be crazy to-do it in anything else but EPub first as this seems to be [...]


This is a list of E-Books available using e-ink or electronic paper. E-ink or electronic paper makes a screen look just like ordinary ink on paper. Unlike a normal screen used on a laptop or computer monitor, a backlight is used to light up pixels, electronic ink reflects light just like it would as if you [...]


My first Blog

09Dec08

This is my first blog at blog.kotsialos.com. I will use this blog to post messages on a variety of issues.  If you have any questions for me please don’t hesitate to let me know.



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