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Google Play Books now lets you upload your own eBooks and read them across devices

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Michael Sauers

To upload books manually to Google Play Books, you’ll have to hit up the web interface. The service only supports DRM-free EPUB files, which should…

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DOJ: Steve Jobs E-Mails Show That Apple Engaged In E-Book Price-Fixing

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Both the publishers and Apple have denied any collusion, but a newly uncovered e-mail from late Apple co-founder and turtlenecked figurehead Steve Jobs to James…

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E INK Announces New e-Paper Technology called Mobius

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

E INK has just unveiled a new large screen e-paper display screen that will soon be hitting mass production. Mobius uses a TFT technology that…

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Linking to external video (and audio) in EPUB3

Posted on May 15, 2013May 15, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Another reason to host video or audio remotely is to give access to multiple formats of the file. EPUB3 has the capability of looking through…

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Ebooks leave librarians out of work

Posted on May 14, 2013 by Michael Sauers

This story is from China. First, I doubt it’s that simple and second, what is the definition of “librarian” in this context? Are we talking…

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Color eInk Kindle?

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Color Kindle suddenly seems a lot more likely. Nate at The Digital Reader reports on Amazon buying Liquavista, maker of Color eInk and potentially Color…

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RaspberryPi: Creating an eBook server

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Michael Sauers

So I’ve set up my RaspberryPi to actually do something other than sit there: I’ve turned it into an eBook server using Calibre. I’ll admit…

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Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes &…

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E-Books and Democracy

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Michael Sauers

WRESTLING with my newspaper on the subway recently, I noticed the woman next to me reading a book on her smartphone. “That has to hurt…

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Permission Based Publishing: The New York Publishing Model (and Why It Doesn’t Work)

Posted on May 2, 2013 by Michael Sauers

…Bookish is a great example of this. Bookish took two years to launch and was started by Penguin Publishing as a portal to share books.…

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