Scribd has talked in the past about bypassing the Kindle Store and getting books straight to Kindle owners and today they’ve unveiled exactly how they plan to do this. Scribd’s strategy for Kindles, eReaders and mobile devices Scribd’s strategy can be summed up as ‘become the universal, open platform that works across all eReaders, phones, and mobile devices and [...]
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The Nintendo DSi XL arrives on March 28th, 2010 for $189 and June 14th sees the launch of the ’100 Classic Books’ cartridge for $20 – setting up an interesting Kindle vs Nintendo DSi XL reading device comparison. The Kindle currently retails for $259 and is a dedicated book reading device (that in a few months will get apps [...]
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The Princeton Kindle DX trial data was released 2 days earlier and it certainly had some interesting feedback from students evaluating the Kindle DX as a textbook reader. Today the University of Washington Kindle DX trial results are out so let’s take a look. Kindle DX in Education - Brilliant for Books, Terrible for Textbooks The recurring theme was that the Kindle is great for leisure [...]
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Teleread are doing a very interesting set of rough blog posts covering the various sessions of the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2010. Here are the most interesting snippets from the Day 1 sessions – Michael Mace on lessons from the failure of eReaders in 2001 Michael Mace said that the Kindle has probably [...]
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Another week with lots of little bits of Kindle and eReader news (and no big news) – DocStoc, an online document sharing site in the mold of Scribd, launched an online document store - much of the motivation seems to be eReaders. DocStoc supposedly focuses on businesses, entrepreneurs, and professional documents. There’s news that Apple’s iPad will be sold at BestBuy. [...]
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