1. B&N to buy back the stake Pearson acquired in its Nook Media business for $27.7m in cash and stock, ahead of a division of the business in 2015. 2. Girls are quick to … Continue reading
January 6, 2015
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December 9, 2014
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Readers Can’t Digest – Week 17 (1-Dec to 7-Dec)
1. Nook has launched a dedicated Christmas shop on its website. 2. Booker winner Ben Okri has won the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for his 10th novel, The Age of Magic. 3. The movie based on Michael Bond’s bear … Continue reading
October 30, 2014
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Trick or Treat? Kobo to Focus on E-Readers, Not Tablets.
When it comes to e-readers, there seems to be a lot of pessimism. Note that we are talking about e-readers, not about e-books, books, writing or reading. Let us enter our custom built time machine and travel back to iPod … Continue reading
October 13, 2014
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Which e-reader?
With Santa Claus checking his lists as Christmas is approaching, now is a good time to determine which e-reader to request. We all know that Kindle, Nook, and Kobo are the most popular dedicated e-readers. It is also old news … Continue reading
October 10, 2014
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E-reader vs Tablet – Sword vs Swiss Army Knife?
Today’s children probably do not know who MacGyver was. Nor would they know about his red knife, a Swiss Army Knife, perhaps not the first multi-purpose tool but sure as heck famous, about which Wikipedia says: “The most common tools … Continue reading
May 30, 2014
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A Brief History of E-books
These days e-books are not considered a novelty at all. Kindle, Nook, Kobo, and the Sony Reader are but a few of the dedicated readers available on the market. Kindle has almost become a household name. Then you have apps … Continue reading
February 3, 2014
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EPUB Reading Apps (Part 1)
We have talked about ebook reading devices like Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader and Kobo eReader on this blog. We have also discussed their corresponding reader apps. But this is not where the choices end for readers. There are a bunch of … Continue reading
January 8, 2014
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Tool Info: Calibre
Calibre is a very interesting multi-purpose tool for e-book users – readers as well as writers. It calls itself an e-book library management application and among other things helps you do following Library management of e-books Conversion between various formats … Continue reading
January 6, 2014
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Reader Apps: An Alternative to E-book reading devices
We have talked about e-book reading devices on this blog, including Kindle, Kobo eReader, Sony Reader and Nook. Typically these devices are connected to the respective e-book stores run by their companies. On Kindle, for example, you can buy books … Continue reading
January 4, 2014
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Understanding EPUB
In an earlier post, we talked about PDF as a file format for e-books. We discussed an important limitation of the format. It is a fixed layout format, which works very well for print, but not for e-books. Since reading … Continue reading