“Between Page and Screen” is a digital pop-up book that contains nothing but elegantly rendered QR codes on its printed pages says C/Net. Readers go to the book’s Web site, hold a page in front of their Webcam, and watch onscreen as a poem pops out of the quick- response code (and moves along as [...]
Apple may launch its next iPad in the first week in March, says All Things D. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these. Retail availability for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), could follow roughly [...]
Jason Chen has left Gawker Media to launch an e-bookstore of his own, StoryBundle, reports Paid Content. Chen will sell bundles of DRM-free e-books under a pay-what-you-want plan. He imagines the average price of a bundle will be around $5. Readers pay what they want for a bundle of e-books and decide which percentage of [...]
This video compilation of thought leaders at Digital Book World has some interesting takes on eBooks and publishing. The model that the big six publisher, Random House, Hachette (Time Warner Books), Macmillan, Penguin, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster is seen by many as “time limited.” Mike Shatzkin says, “The big six is run by the [...]
Samsung’s Galaxy Note, the 5.3-inch smartphone/tablet hybrid device, will launch on Feb. 19 for $300 with a two-year contract from AT&T. Pre-orders begin Feb. 5. The Galaxy Note’s 5.3-inch screen straddles the line between smartphone and tablet. The Galaxy Note will be powered by a 1.5-Ghz, dual-core processor, with 16GB of built-in memory. It has [...]
Audiobooks.com has announced unlimited access to its library of 11,000 audio books through its website and an HTML5 mobile app for $24.95 a month. Unlimited content downloads have been popular for movie and music sellers, now AudioBooks is trying unlimited, monthly audiobook access, says Mashable. Amazon-owned competitor Audible also has a monthly membership. But with [...]
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