Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ben Lorica's excellent post at O'Reilly Radar (Waiting for the Billionth Download) is full of details about iPhone apps. A bit overshadowed is the growth in the Books category. I've done some clipping and rearranging on one of Lorica's charts to bring this out -- Note that the Rate-of-Change for ...
Posted in PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Since the announcement by Apple last week of new iPhone OS software that will become available in June, publishers Adam Hodgkin and Mike Shatzkin have been having an interesting dialog about the future of the eBook market, and how iPhone 3.0 will affect the competition between Amazon, Apple, and Google. ...
Posted in Mobile, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
A notable feature of the KIndle iPhone app that was announced today is that it has color, unlike Amazon's Kindle device. The most complete comments I've found on this are at CNET.com, written by Nicole Lee (whose interest in comic books gives her good reason to look for color!) Her ...
Posted in Color, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 5 Comments »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
When a link is clicked to a specific page in GBS Mobile, the page that always opens is the entry page for the book. There doesn't seem to be a way to link successfully to specific pages. I've tried this in several examples, and have had the same experience in ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Mobile, Navigation, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
There's been a lot of buzz about the announcement last week of mobile access to Google Book Search public-domain books. I've been looking hard for nitty-gritty details of how it works, though, and haven't found much. The best is in comments by bowerbird on an announcement article on toc.oreilly.com. It's ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, TOC, Uncategorized, iPhone | No Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
What are eBooks? WikiPedia says an eBook is "the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book ... usually read on a PC or ... an e-book reader."
This sounds like what Peter Brantley calls "the older model" of eBooks that are "downloadable and packaged ... into dedicated readers." The newer ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | 1 Comment »
