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Next week the 2011–2012 school year kicks off in earnest. On the Future Shop Tech blog (where I contribute posts), we’ve had the raft of Back to School 101 posts to help folks gear up (literally and figuratively ) for school, but in the meantime I’ve been keeping an eye on trends overall and I [...]
I have a soft spot for Kobo (despite the fact you can’t buy my books through them). I still maintain that the Kobo reader app for iOS is the best eBook app out there. Yes, I’ve tried the others, but Kobo just wins time and again for flexibility and ease of use. Kobo has also [...]
Lending ebooks first came to the Nook and now available for select books on Kindles, which makes me wonder if we could all become giant P2P libraries in the near future. Something that could make public libraries either scream in panic or giggle with glee, depending on whether you see this as a powerful tool [...]
From time to time I’ll post full posts that I write for Future Shop (that’s allowed now), but today, it’s just excerpts. Enjoy! Last week Nicholas Negroponte was quoted as saying that the physical book would be dead in 5 years—Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is Dead In 5 Years—which I thought is pushing it [...]
I gather that Penguin—the literature arm of my publisher Pearson—is including some video bits in some ebooks. Reading techvibes, it sounds like Knowlton Thomas doesn’t think this is a good idea—Penguin launches ebook infused with video: Isn’t that what movies are for? – Techvibes.com—I, however, completely disagree and think this kind of additional content is [...]
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