World Digital Library to launch April 21

An interesting step in the direction of using the internet in breaking down borders and increasing the bond between countries. The World Digital Library has an interesting concept: From their website worlddigitallibrary.org: The... [read more…]

Free cook book for Kindle

Are cookbooks on the Kindle a good idea? Yes,but how practical are they? After a free Cook’s Illustrated cookbook was available on Kindle, there has been alot of positive feedback. However Paul Biba... [read more…]

How books get digitized

The guys over at TeleRead featured an interesting product today. The Kirtas APT 2400RA which ‘digitizes’ books. Here is YouTube video on the machine in action: How do books get digitized?... [read more…]

The economics of e-books

After reading numerous articles about the ebooks and their costs, there has been specualtion on whether the book industry will follow in the footsteps ofthe way music has evolved, by lowing their costs... [read more…]

It is coming: The e-Book revolution

Computer World blogger Mike Elgan has an interesting post at why he believes e-Books are going to catch fire and ‘ignite’ in 2009. Here is the lowdown on why Mike believes e-Books will boom... [read more…]

1.5 million books on your mobile

Today sees the announcement from Inside Google Book Search that Android and iPhone users will be able to access 1.5 million public domain books from their browser by visiting http://books.google.com/m. Today,... [read more…]

20 Reasons Why 2009 Will Be The Year of the Ebook

The feeling that the e-Book industry was going to make significant steps forward in 2009 had always been in the back of my mind and it looks like I am not the only one. Gutenberg has just released a list... [read more…]

A sign of the times: year for the e-Book

In the lead up to Christmas, presents for other people are usually on my mind. Oddly though, with all my Christmas shopping for 2008 done, I have already find myself thinking about Christmas in 2009 -... [read more…]

Nintendo DS in Harper Collins Deal

The Times provides us with an article on Nintendo signing a deal with the UK publisher, HarperCollins. Their aim was to encourage more reading, which the achieved by introducing portable books to our... [read more…]

The Sony ebook read - some final thoughts

David Hewson over at the Digitalist has provided an interesting post on the first impressions of the Sony e-Reader, by two different people. I’ve been up and down the land with my little Sony e-book... [read more…]