New Device May 'Kindle' Interest in Reading E-Newspaper on Daily Commute (Editor & Publisher)
NEW YORK Making a successful reader for electronic books is one of the toughest tasks in consumer electronics. Many have tried and all have failed, defeated by something that's thousands of years old -- the book....more...Ladies' Night in iTunes' Free Section (TechNewsWorld.com)
When I browse the iTunes Store looking for free stuff to write about, I usually wind up talking about stuff that, in general, appeals to guys. I am a guy, after all, so it's easy to understand why that's so. This week, however, I've made a concerted effort to find things that may appeal to women as well as men. You might say that I'm attempting to get in touch with my feminine side....more... Getting a Read on Amazon's New Kindle (Knowledge at Wharton)
On November 19, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos announced the launch of an e-book device called Kindle. It weighs 10.3 ounces, costs $399 and can be used without a computer, offering instead a free, high-speed wireless data network from Sprint. Users can download books in less than 60 seconds, as well as newspapers, magazines and blogs (for a fee). The device uses an eye-friendly screen and lets ......more... Adobe to Offer Parole to Jailed eBooks (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Adobe plans to release an update to its Digital Editions e-book reader software in the near future that will solve the problem of e-books being locked to a single PC ? or in some cases, vanishing after a system crash or format....more... Briefly in Books (The Ithaca Journal)
United States Artists (USA), a national organization that provides direct support for living artists, announced the recipients of 50 USA Fellowships for 2007 totaling $2.5 million. This marks the second year of the USA Fellows program, which annually awards fifty $50,000 unrestricted grants to artists of all disciplines from across the country, in recognition of the caliber and impact of their ......more... When You Blog, They Listen (TechNewsWorld.com)
You may never hear a word from a conversation analyst, but there's a very good chance one is paying close attention to what you're saying on blogs, in Web forums or in product reviews on sites that sell books or blenders. Somewhere, someone is reading and analyzing your words. "I pay attention to what people say online," said Leah Jones, one of these so-called conversation analysts....more... How to Clobber Climate Change Without Clobbering your Wallet -- Free Book Tells All (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Steve N. Lee's 'An Inconvenient Doofus' shows ordinary people how to fight deforestation, pollution, poverty, human/animal rights abuses and climate change, and thus save the Amazon, feed the starving and free the oppressed....more... Online library offers 1.5m books for free (ZDNet UK)
The Universal Digital Library, backed by several major libraries worldwide, is more about preservation and less about getting clicks ...more... Advertiser settles spam charges for $650,000 (InfoWorld)
Online advertiser Adteractive will pay $650,000 to settle charges that it used deceptive spam messages to lure people to its Web sites. The company ran e-mail and Web ads offering free Sony Playstations, laptop computers, and even a $1,000 check, implying that consumers had been selected as secret shoppers and would receive the free gear or cash after they tested the products, the FTC ......more... |