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  • Why eBooks Still Suck - Articles & reviews

    Why eBooks Still Suck. why ebooks still suck. eBooks have always had great promise, yet continue to disappoint. This despite significant efforts to seed the market for eBooks. You would think that kids would glom on to eBooks, given that all other trends tend to originate with the Unwired Generation. It would seem a natural extension for them to prefer eBooks to paper. There are several factors that have conspired to make eBooks fall flat....

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  • Bookface.com puts free e-books online - News

    Bookface.com puts free e-books online. bookface. While Web booksellers helped make 1999 a banner year for conventional book sales, at least one company believes e-books can succeed and is proving it by making them available online free of charge. While Web booksellers helped make 1999 a banner year for conventional book sales , at least one company believes e-books can succeed and is proving it by making them available online free of charge....

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  • Bubble Bursts for E-Books - News

    Bubble Bursts for E-Books. bubble bursts for e. At the height of the Internet boom, e-books were hailed as the shining new tomorrow for publishers and paper books were heading for the scrap heap. At the height of the Internet boom, e-books were hailed as the shining new tomorrow for publishers and paper books were heading for the scrap heap....

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  • Sony e-book reader with E Ink display headed to Borders book stores - News

    Sony e-book reader with E Ink display headed to Borders book stores. sony reader e ink headed to borders. What was announced was that customers would have the ability to purchase pre-paid cards through Borders, which entitles them to acquire e-books through Sony’s CONNECT service. Equally up in the air is the practical issue of price and availability, which applies to both the Reader and the e-books themselves....

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  • J.K. Rowling Still A Technophobe, No Harry Potter VII eBook - News

    J.K. Rowling Still A Technophobe, No Harry Potter VII eBook. no ebook for harry potter. With the impending feeding frenzy that is the June 21 launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Cauldron of Clearosol" [Deathly Hallows -Ed] the rather rich author J.K. Rowling has said that she detests eBooks and will not allow the ePublication of the final Potter book. None of the Harry Potter books have been published as an eBook, not because it doesn’t make financial sense but because the author believes that everyone would then steal her books ; and besides, people are better off reading books on old fashioned paper, she told the Assosiated Press. Sony released a very nice eBook Reader, thankyouverymuch, and I’d just as well read about Harry Potter’s in-law troubles there as anywhere....

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  • Sony Opens Up eBook Reader - News

    Sony has announced that its Reader Digital Book will be the first eBook reader to support the .epub format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s XML-based standard format for publishing ebooks. Sony has announced that its Reader Digital Book will be the first eBook reader to support the .epub format, the International Digital Publishing Forum’s XML-based standard format for publishing ebooks. The reader will continue to support the BBeB format native to Sony’s eBook store and additionally, will support Adobe Digital Editions software enabling users to read copyright-protected PDF files....

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  • Why eBooks Still Suck - Articles & reviews

    Why eBooks Still Suck. why ebooks still suck. eBooks have always had great promise, yet continue to disappoint. There are other non-technology-related reasons why younger people have thumbed their noses at eBooks, some of which have to do with how they have grown up. Aging baby boomers will appreciate the eBook's ability to increase font sizes, thus sparing them that inevitable public marker of age: reading glasses. Academics can take advantage of the eBook's ability to carry multiple books at once. It's not clear to me that going after teens with eBooks is the right thing for leisure," says Bischoff....

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  • Sony's eBook Reader Is a Real Winner! - Articles & reviews

    Notice that a number of the included "eBooks" are actually excerpts not the whole book. Also notice that the "Operation Guide" (sic) for the Reader is one of the eBooks. There are sources for eBooks other than the CONNECT store. Project Gutenberg has over 20,000 free eBooks online mostly in ASCII text format. However, text file-based eBooks behave in all ways like any eBook you buy on the CONNECT store as do Word files dragged to the Reader....

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