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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Vodafone Books on Mobile venture launches in UK
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: business · ebook formats · news
Sony adds PRS 700 to its ebook reader line-up, gets serious about ebooks
October 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Sony has added a second option to its ebook reader line-up with the announcement of the PRS 700, slated for late November release in the US. No word on any international releases yet.
Among the new features of the PRS 700 is a touch screen with a stylus and on-screen QWERTY keyboard, the ability to annotate [...]
Tags: business · ebook readers · hardware
Are ebooks ugly, and has the book industry got it wrong?
July 29th, 2008 · No Comments
Anyone who has tried to create an ebook from a source that uses sidebars, tables and other layout devices will know that the current ebook formats such as .epub, mobipocket, etc can become very challenging and even look plain ugly. They’re fine for long slabs of text with occasional pictures and headings, but give them [...]
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Book Launch 2.0 - funny video that’s sadly too true
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments
If you’ve been involved in the business of selling books, you’ll really relate to this YouTube video clip. Enjoy!
Tags: bookselling · business
2008: Year of the eBook - Not
February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
In spite of another round of ebook hype prompted by Amazon’s Kindle launch late last year, the signs are not good for 2008 to be the Year of the eBook. One of the best indicators I found was here, at CeBIT, the world’s biggest ICT trade show which runs 4-9 March in Hannover, Germany. A [...]