The link below is to an article that takes a look at yet another Amazon venture – ‘Icons.’
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http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-publishing-announces-the-launch-of-icons/
Here’s a sign that e-readers are struggling in the U.S.: E Ink Holdings, the Taiwan-based company that makes e-reader screens for companies such as Amazon (s AMZN), Barnes & Noble (s BKS) and Sony (s SNE), just had its worst quarter in four years. The company saw a net loss of NT $1.01 billion (USD $33.7 million) for the second quarter of 2013, and revenues were down 35 percent over the previous year to NT $2.93 billion (USD $98 million).
Market research companies have been forecasting the death of e-readers for awhile now as more consumers buy tablets. Nonetheless, E Ink Holdings sees growth ahead as e-readers become more popular outside the United States. “Customers [i.e., e-reader manufacturers] have put off their new product launches to the third quarter from the second quarter,” CFO Eddie Chen said (via the Taipei Times). In an investor presentation (PDF), E Ink noted that…
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The link below is to an article that takes a look at the Android ebook reading app, Fabrik.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/who-needs-kindle-fabrik-is-a-stylish-ereader-app-for-android-that-supports-cloud-sync/
The link below is to an article that considers the future of news.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/print-vs-digital-what-is-the-future-for-news-you-told-us/
Bookstores had a really bad week — at least in the world of blog punditry, where three industry figures I admire posted their takes on why bookstores as we know them are doomed. Seth Godin, in fact, goes further and says that books are dead too. Here’s a little reading for you:
In a post titled “An industry pining for bookstores” over at the Scholarly Kitchen, management consultant Joseph Esposito writes, “With bookstores collapsing everywhere, the print business collapses along with it.” As bookstores close, Esposito argues, readers have fewer places to discover print books. Instead, he says, they learn about titles online — through Twitter, Goodreads, or Amazon pages. When it comes time to order the book, they have two options: A cheaper digital version or a more expensive print version. “Why pay for…
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The link below is to an article (with photos and gifs) that looks at 10 miniature books.
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http://mentalfloss.com/article/52186/10-miniature-books-we-covet
While I have been away the case against Apple has progressed to the ‘punishment’ stage and the link below is to an article reporting on that aspect of it.
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http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/judge-cote-devises-brave-punishments-for-apple-in-settlement-hearing/
Like many other observers and analysts, I responded to Amazon (s amzn) CEO Jeff Bezos’ acquisition of the Washington Post by jumping in with some free advice on a turnaround strategy — a list of five things I thought he should do to try and reimagine what a newspaper needs to be in a digital age. One of those suggestions in particular has triggered a barrage of criticism: namely, the idea that the Post should shut down its printing presses. But that is the step I think may actually be the most crucial — and at the same time, the hardest to take.
The reason why it would be hard is partly financial. As Ryan Chittum has pointed out at the Columbia Journalism Review — and as others have pointed out to me on Twitter — there is a very real cost to shutting down the print version of a…
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