China Mobile Should Have a Head Start in E-Reader Race – Seeking Alpha
Meanwhile Jinke is also looking further afield, having already reached a deal with France Telecom to distribute its Hanlin reader in Europe via Orange MNC business units and is looking to target BRIC partner countries, Brazil, Russia and India in the near future.
Там еще любопытная новость о том, что Китай собирался закупить аж сразу 165 млн букридеров - для учащихся.
FT.com / Technology - AUO to kindle rivalry with half-price e-readers
Taiwan’s AU Optronics has thrown down the gauntlet to its rivals, saying it expects to be able to halve the cost of electronic readers, popularised by Amazon’s Kindle devices, within two years.
The world’s third-biggest flat-panel maker has begun shipping six- to nine-inch-sized e-readers to a number of clients, according to CT Liu, a senior vice-president of consumer product displays at AUO.
New York Public Library and Kirtas Technologies Partner to Make 500,000 Public-Domain Books Available to the World | LISWire
Readers and researchers looking for hard-to-find books now have the opportunity to dip into the collections of one of the world’s most comprehensive libraries to purchase digitized copies of public domain titles. Through their Digitize-on-Demand program, Kirtas Technologies has partnered with The New York Public Library to make 500,000 public domain works from the Library’s collections available (to anyone in the world).
Adobe - Online events : Event Details
Discover how the Adobe eBook platform makes reading an immersive experience—everywhere and across devices. Join us for an hour-long complimentary online eSeminar and explore how the Adobe eBook platform enables reader engagement through a streamlined workflow for authoring, protecting and delivering digital books. Hosted by Adobe product experts, this eSeminar shows how to enable a seamless reading experience across multiple screen types and why an open, interoperable eBook platform serves your readers best.
Program - eBook Summit Не TOC, конечно, но я бы съездил ((
Program - eBook Summit Среди докладчиков: Susan Danziger (директор), Steve Haber (президент Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division), Neelan Choksi (основатель Lexcycle), Brandon Badger (продакт-менеджер Google Books), Bob Livolsi (директор Books on Board).
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Company - Emergence of new business models
Time is of the essence. As a general rule, digital products still only comprise a small fraction of sales: Around 60 per cent of those polled estimate that considerably less than ten per cent of their revenue will come from digital sources in 2009. However, this will change in the next two years in the opinion of those polled: 41 per cent of those polled calculate sales of up to ten per cent for 2011 and 58 per cent anticipate that digital products will comprise a considerably higher share of total sales.
среда, 30 сентября 2009 года, 10.31
Владимир Харитонов Через пиксели к буквам
Краткий путеводитель по электронным библиотекам
Счастливых обладателей букридеров становится всё больше. Купив удобное устройство для чтения электронных книг, они, правда, довольно скоро обнаруживают, что обещанная рекламой «вся русская классика в кармане» (примерно под таким слоганом сейчас продаются в России букридеры украинско-тайваньского происхождения) не совсем «вся», да и не читать же одну классику. И хочется почитать чего-нибудь ещё. Подробнее
Pro-Books.ru | Книжный бизнес Online Приветствуем и читаем.
Les Guides MAF, actualités du livre électronique et livres numériques: Les Guides MAF sur Iphone
Версия для iPhone одного из самых известных сервисов онлайновой публикации scribd.com появилась в App Store. Бесплатная программа, правда, доступна только пользователям американского аккаунта iTunes Store и только для OS iPhone 3.1.