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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]
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]
Amazon to compensate for deleted Kindle e-books
News In July, Amazon received a torrent of criticism, as well as a lawsuit, over its decision to delete copies of 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles after it discovered that certain versions of those e-books were added to the Kindle library by an...
[September 7, 2009, 11:19]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Google offers rivals ability to resell e-books
News Under the proposed settlement, Google would get 37 percent of revenue from e-books sold through its service and, through the reseller programme, the reseller would get "the significant majority" of that 37 percent, Drummond said.
[September 11, 2009, 8:47]
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]
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 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]
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]
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]
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 26, 2007, 16:52]
Will businesses ever get e-books
Blog So the kindle 2 is out and it's thinner more apple design look will make any 21st century bookish type lick their lips (not sure if we'll ever see one this side of the pond this year though). GIven that businesses have so much literature and...
[February 10, 2009, 13:03]
eBook Reader for Nokia 9500
Downloads Using it you can read e-books downloaded from Web-based e-book stores. eBook Reader - one of the best viewer and organizer for electronic books for the Nokia 9500/9300. Bookmarks, continue reading from the last position, library with categories...
[January 26, 2006, 7:23]
