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E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
News But some experts say e-books need to do more than move ink onto digital displays to go mainstream. E-books, which can be downloaded to a special reading device or a traditional PC, got a major push in 2000 when Microsoft partnered with Barnes...
[April 7, 2006, 12:50]
Consumers May Find E-books A Tough Read
News Other readers, such as the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader Plus V2.0 (formerly called the Glassbook reader) do not allow you to read the same e-books from more than one computer or to copy e-book data files from one computer to another.
[November 30, 2000, 11:51]
Barnes & Noble Pulps E-books
News Barnes&Noble.com has discontinued sales of e-books, according to a statement on the company's Web site. E-books sparked a flurry of excitement in 2000 when best-selling author Stephen King experimented with the format.
[September 10, 2003, 8:45]
The New Yorker Enters Digital Age With E-books
News Microsoft said Monday it has inked a deal with The New Yorker to publish the magazine's first series of e-books in the Microsoft Reader format. The New Yorker said it will offer its first three e-books Tuesday through Barnes&Noble.com.
[January 30, 2001, 14:53]
New Flare-up In Battle Over E-books
News Sarnoff told the audience that while it's a "dead certainty that the publishing world will be rocked" by e-books, he expected the true impact not to occur for another decade or two. Even the most bullish e-book market watchers, such as Andersen...
[November 7, 2000, 9:48]
Microsoft, Donnelley Sign E-books Deal
News Donnelley that could expand the list of e-books into the tens of thousands. Microsoft and Donnelley were both backers of the Open eBook standard, which would allow electronic books to be read by multiple readers.
[November 5, 1999, 10:26]
Adobe Takes Another Look At E-books
News Adobe thinks it's time to revisit electronic books. The software can read PDF pages as well as XHTML-formatted content, which makes it suitable for both longer texts, such as books, and shorter texts, such as magazine articles.
[October 24, 2006, 11:15]
Exclusive: Pocket PC Glitch Means Few Readable E-books
News The announcement of the partnership with publishers Simon and Schuster, Time Warner and retailer Barnesandnoble.com coincides with the release of the final version of Microsoft's eBook Reader for Windows PCs, with which PC users will be able to...
[August 8, 2000, 8:59]
HarperCollins And Palm To Offer E-books
News Palm has signed a deal with HarperCollins Publishers to distribute e-books through Palm Digital Media, a publisher and distributor of e-books for handheld computers. The companies said that among the e-books offered will be works by Geoffrey Moore...
[November 21, 2001, 11:46]
E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
Talkback Try Baen - they do the books without all these restrictions, and in many formats, and they're cheaper! This must be the way to go.
[April 9, 2006, 11:36]
E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
Talkback This will be a good idea, because I myself find it difficult reading, because my memory is not great, plus I have a physical disability and wheelchair user. If I could see the written words and here the sound of the words.
[April 7, 2006, 18:53]
E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
Talkback Sure a lot of books carry brief blurbs on the auhtor's next novel, but that means they have already published and someone has their book in hand. As an aspiring author, one key feature will be the ability to market one's work effectively.
[April 8, 2006, 10:00]
E-Books: Getting There, Slowly
Talkback In response to one of the earlier comments, it would be pretty easy to release the first few chapters of a book for free and then charge for the remaining chapters. Or maybe go the whole hog and charge just for the last chapter!
[April 19, 2006, 12:30]
Penguin To Launch Shareable E-books
News The e-books will be available in two formats -- Microsoft Reader and Adobe Acrobat. We want our e-books to reflect the breadth of our publishing -- science, business and computer titles will be featured in our launch," explained Ettinghausen.
[August 22, 2001, 12:03]
AOL Not Liable For Unauthorised E-books
News In a ruling that further clarifies whether Internet service providers are responsible for material on their networks, a federal judge ruled that America Online is not liable for the unauthorised posting of some e-books on its Web servers.
[March 19, 2002, 10:40]
E-books On Your Mobile
Talkback I am now on my third book being read from my Nokia mobile. This is the reason Kindle will not succeed, we already carry too many things with us. Laptops, PDAs, Palmtops, Smartphones, Notebooks and mobiles can all do what the Kindle does.and plenty...
[November 27, 2007, 9:30]
Adobe Heralds Surprise E-book Revival
Talkback most people dont know what an e-book is.or understand how they work.when you look for a device to read your e-books on, stores dont know what your talking about and they dont have anything to show you.i already have a poket pc, I can not get it to...
[December 22, 2003, 0:52]
Amazon To Launch Kindle E-book Reader
News Amazon is betting that e-books aren't a total bust. The Kindle is equipped with a Wi-Fi connection that taps into an Amazon e-book store, which users can access to purchase new electronic books — and Amazon has reportedly signed onto a deal with...
[November 16, 2007, 8:26]
Amazon's Kindle Lights No UK Fires
Blog Comment I have to agree with you, some people in the blogosphere were speculating that it could do for e-books what the iPod did for music, but e-books are not as in demand as music for. In addition, these days; trains, cafe's and some public areas all...
[November 21, 2007, 22:49]
Programmer Hacks Microsoft E-book Code
News The encryption protection that stops the copying of e-books stored in Microsoft Reader formats has been broken by an anonymous programmer, according to MIT's Technology Review. Microsoft Reader is the software that enables people to read e-books.
[August 31, 2001, 17:06]
