Monthly Archives: December 2009

Although this is technically an e-book blog, not a “Cherrypal blog,” I have nonetheless written the most about the devices of any blog so I feel a little bit of responsibility to the people who ordered them after seeing them here.
So here is a roundup of comments we have received today about the status [...] Continue reading →

This article reminded me of the NPR piece on e-books we mentioned the other day. In that piece, various talking heads suggested that e-books were changing the way in which we read, and hence the way in which authors would have to write from now on.
On O’Reilly Radar, Sarah Milstein talks about the similar [...] Continue reading →

Here’s something a little different (earlier than the books I normally feature.) A book that “deals with the present-day problems of visual expression” by the great artist/designer Gyorgy Kepes.

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We have already said plenty about the possible e-book reading potential of netbooks as opposed to dedicated e-book readers. Now here comes a whole new category of micro-laptop that might also be good for e-book reading, at a lower price point.
In the last few years, we have had notebooks, powerbooks, macbooks, netbooks…and now “smartbooks” and [...] Continue reading →

Erictric has an article about these two upcoming applications and a link for you to sign up to be notified when they are released.
Unfortunately neither of them will display newspapers, magazines or blogs (and neither does the iPhone app) and the Blackberry application will be available in the US only. I’m waiting for the [...] Continue reading →

BookofJoe is reporting that the Morgan Library in New York, along with the New York Times, have made the manuscript of Dickens’ work available on the web. The Times was allowed by the Morgan to photograph and display it. The Morgan displays the manuscript every year at this time but only one page is [...] Continue reading →

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Chip Rosenthal a fait un intéressant calcul sur le coût des DRM via un e-reader. Comme beaucoup, Chip hésite. Doit-il acheter un Kindle ? Trouvera-t-il suffisamment de livres qui l’intéressent dans la galerie marchande de l’éditeur Américain ? Si parmi tous les lecteurs électroniques, le Kindle est le plus à même de couvrir ses besoins [...] Continue reading →

According to Douglas Moran of Gear Diary this problem has been fixed. Douglas says that this is a result of something B&N did on the server end, not the app end, because a new app has not been issued yet. You can take a look at his article here, where he relates his conversation [...] Continue reading →