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Kindling a new fire

Posted in eBook Readers, Technology on September 5, 2011 |

This is as disruptive as things in the e-reader space could get. From launching the Kindle a few years ago, Amazon is now coming full circle with a touchscreen device – the Kindle Tablet.. The folks at www.thatsitguys.com report that Amazon will be launching a tablet device running Android before the end of this year. [...]

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Behold the future. Its here.

Posted in Digitization, tagged , on August 21, 2011 |

Author, journalist and biographer James Gleick whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology recently wrote off the love for books in their physical format in NYT.com which was reprinted in the Deccan Herald recently: It’s a mistake to deprecate digital images just because they are suddenly everywhere, reproduced so effortlessly. We’re in [...]

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I, Book Robot?

Posted in Inventory Management, Technology on May 26, 2011 |

This news report on CNET.com was shared with us (Thanks, V) which begins, on a rather ominous note: If books are dying a slow death, libraries are also living on borrowed time. But that didn’t stop the University of Chicago from sinking $81 million into the new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, which ironically doesn’t have [...]

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E-Books enliven things

Posted in eBook Readers on April 15, 2011 | 2 Comments »

That’s an understatement, if ever there was one. Engadget reports that:  US sales of e-books generated about $90.3 million in revenue in February — roughly triple the sales reported in the same month last year. Meanwhile, printed books declined 34 percent and 16 percent in those respective areas, with gentler, single-digit drops for education and [...]

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Not plain vanilla anymore

Posted in eBook Readers, Publishing, Technology, tagged , on February 25, 2011 |

A report in the Guardian yesterday points out that its a great time to be a publisher what with ebooks bringing in a whole host of new opportunities & revenue streams: ….. is the increasing popularity of book apps, distributed through app stores rather than ebook retailers. Two new iOS releases this week highlight the potential [...]

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PlayBook. PlayBall

Posted in Happenings, Technology, tagged , on October 1, 2010 |

*Sigh* Every day brings news about new product launches. This one’s from Research in Motion, the Canadian maker of the BlackBerry smartphone. Which, if you recall, was in trouble for offering services (through their phones) which did not address government’s security concerns. Once bitten, twice shy, now the PlayBook – RIM’s tablet  PC, will be [...]

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Are we having difficulty, uh, concentrating?

Posted in Happenings, Technology on June 29, 2010 |

The Telegraph has an interesting article wherein the issue of whether constant use of electronic gadgets is reshaping our brains and making our thinking shallower is discussed. Also featured in the article is American author Nicholas Carr, who has written on this theme in his new book ‘The Shallows’ Mr. Carr argues in the book [...]

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Liberator, for sure

Posted in eBook Readers, Technology, tagged , on June 23, 2010 |

Our first sight of this beauty was a small picture accompanied by a 5 line report in the TOI recently. Try as we could, that news report eluded us from linking to here. Meanwhile, we spotted [ the sharp eyes that we have! ] the complete review of  it in Wired magazine and knew we [...]

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A marriage of convenience?

Posted in eBook Readers, Technology, tagged , on June 22, 2010 |

In the first of its series, John Barber at The Globe and Mail says that the age of the e-reader has done nothing to kill our thirst for bloated blockbusters. Check out the full article  ’The book is dead…long live the book’  here. And for book lovers contemplating buying the Kindle, here’s a add-on that [...]

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Bringing colour to the small screen

Posted in eBook Readers, Technology, tagged , on May 26, 2010 |

It was just a question of time and had to happen! Peer closely at this picture now. What do you see? Gotcha! Colour has come to E-books! Pandigital, a company that specialises in digital photo frames is set to release a $199.99 color e-book reader. Pandigital have formed a partnership with the world’s largest bookseller, Barnes [...]

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