eBooks and the Middle Path

Take either Aristotle and the Greek Philosophy of the Golden Mean or the Buddha and his advice to follow the middle path and you get the same advice – Take the middle path and avoid the two extremes. Perhaps its time we did the same with ebooks. Consider the two extremes – Publishers make a ton of money [...]

Publishers killing Nook Lending BEFORE launch

MediaLoper and TeleRead have very intelligent discussions about the imminent demise of Nook Sharing. Media Loper clarifies that ‘an ebook can be lent only once’ – To be clear, the LendMe feature is extremely limited. Books are lent for a maximum of 14 days. And unlike the library, there are no extensions. When a book is lent, the [...]

2 million Kindle, 3 million eInk Display sales in 2009

Digitimes is a news site that usually gets their rumors right – or to be more precise has good sources in the tech industry in Asia and they break a lot of news. Here are three HUGE pieces of breaking news from their sources – Electrophoretic display maker PVI (which makes Kindle eInk screens, and also Nook [...]

Adding up BN ebooks – Million Book Myth

Are you (like me) impressed by Barnes and Noble’s million plus ebooks? Perhaps we shouldn’t be. Here are the number of ebooks currently present in the various Barnes & Noble ebook sections – Fiction Christian Fiction - 377. Classics – 1,447. Erotica – 225. Historical Fiction – 1,475. Horror – 486. Romance – 5,022. Science Fiction [...]

Apple Slate eReader imminent – Bill Keller of NY Times

Gawker has the scoop on a slip by Bill Keller of NY Times -   Sixth, we need to figure out the right journalistic product to deliver to mobile platforms. I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in delivering our best journalistic product .. … times reader, iPhone apps, impending apple slate or whatever comes [...]

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