Google has announced that it is now indexing pages that are stored as scanned images rather than text. For many older books, whose electronic format might simply be the scanned page images, this could be a boon.  It will allow material inside the book to be located from a Google search where, until now, the [...]

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A new venture, Vodafone Books on Mobile, has launched in the UK with global ambitions to bring books to mobile phone users. The initial offering centres around audio books but the company behind it sees text-based ebooks as an expanding part of their offering as mobile screens improve.
The service is a partnership between Vodafone and [...]

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The entire contents of a new book has been released online as a ‘Wiki’ at the same time it becomes available in its traditional paper format. The online edition of Connecting the Clouds: The Internet in New Zealand is freely viewable and searchable, and comes with the ability to edit, contribute new material, and annotate [...]

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The Final Report of the first World Internet Project New Zealand survey (WIPNZ) is out and provides a good snapshot of New Zealanders’ usage of, and attitudes to, the internet.
It will be part of a larger, standardised 30-country research project which will be conducted every two years to look at social, political and economic impacts [...]

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I don’t feel so bad about being left behind down in our part of the world when the Brits are just celebrating the launch of their first dedicated ebook reader available through retail channels. In this case, it’s the iliad iRex, the same one adopted by Dymocks Downunder, and it’s being launched through Borders UK.
To [...]

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