Jeff Bezos joins Jon Stewart for a look at the Kindle 2.0.
Among other things, Jon and Jeff discuss the ‘comfortable low tech’ feeling of a hardcopy book, what the robot reader might sound like and whether there be pirates in the eBook ocean.
Send an Author On a World Tour (For Free!)
Can’t afford to send every author on a multi-city tour to promote a book? If your author has a computer and a webcam, you can do author readings for free by using the streaming video site Justin TV.
Shortcovers Launches Tomorrow (Tonight) in Canada
As the Globe and Mail reports, Shortcovers will launch in Canada and the US at 12:01am on Thursday (tonight at midnight for those who stay up that late on a weeknight for reasons other than Obama getting elected President [so…not me]).
Browser Wars: Knights Don't Lie
Who is winning the Battle of the Browsers? Curious about who is using what? These are the knights that say which, close cousins of the legendary Knights that Say Ni. (Why, yes, it is Friday—how did you know?)
PW to Host Free "Green" Publishing Webcast
Is 2009 the Year of the E-Book? (Part Two)
More on the Mike Elgan Future of eBooks article (part one is here if you’re curious)…
Is 2009 the Year of the E-Book? (Part One)
According to Mike Elgan at Computer World, six major factors are coming to converge this year to precipitate the long-awaited e-book revolution. They are (with my marketing segment notes below):
TOC2009: A Book Is A...
This year’s Tools of Change conference contained similar themes to last year, but the difference is the level of adoption, or perceived adoption, and ubqiuity of devices that can take the electronic content that publishers have and provide a transportable, light-weight, library of books to readers that they can carry in their pockets.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
Here is a collection of ideas and information shared at the conference.
#TOC: The Conference that Gives You Information Overload!
As I sit here trying to sift through my experience of the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference that I just attended for three days I realize how much information was shelled out. To think, I not only listened to three days worth of conversations about the digital media but followed every person who was using twitter at the conference getting all of their opinions and links out to reference sites, it is no wonder my head is buzzing.
