WSJ: Apple and HarperCollins negotiating e-book deal for tablet
Here's the skinny from The Wall Street Journal : major publishing company HarperCollins is in talks with Apple about bringing e-books to the oft-rumored, still-unconfirmed tablet that's expected to be the focus of its January 27th event . The article also states that other publishing companies have been in talks with Cupertino HQ.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, conjecture, cupertino, ereader, property, publishing, result, time inc, times, wallstreetjournal
Blio seeks to take digital reading in a new, more inclusive, and colorful direction
As if we didn't have enough pretenders in the ebook space, here's Ray Kurzweil with a new format of his own and a bagful of ambition to go with it. Set for a proper unveiling at CES in a week's time, the Blio format and accompanying application are together intended to deliver true-to-life color reproductions of the way real books appear. Interestingly, the software has been developed in partnership with Nokia, in an effort to turn Espoo's phones into "the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far," though apps are also being developed for the iPhone, PC and Mac
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: color, digital publishing, digitalpublishing, life, nokia, pdf, publishers, publishing, reading, reproductions, speech, unveiling
Analyst noise: Apple tablet in March for $1k, publishers on-board, Verizon iPhone coming too
If you've been following mainstream news today, then it's likely you've seen the story doing the rounds on new Apple tablet rumors, spurred by a note sent to clients from Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. Never heard of him
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120000 Reading Books on Android Phones – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat
Since the application's September launch, 120000 users have downloaded the Aldiko eBook reader for Android smartphones. According to the company, the average Aldiko user downloads more than seven books a month. ...
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On The Street – Viewers Like You – Viewers Like You
From Barry McGee in San Francisco to Banksy in London to the street artists of Tokyo, we take a look at street arts' semiotic and symbolic roles in contemporary culture, both as an aesthetic and as an active lifestyle. ...
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Rupert Murdoch announces charges for mobile Wall Street Journal …
Rupert Murdoch marches on in his crusade to charge for content. Murdoch has lately announced that the Blackberry and iPhone Wall Street Journal readers,
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Street, nintendo, Other Tags: amazon, BlackBerry, books, chris-meadows, digital, drm, internet, iphone, kindle, library, paper, publishing, rupert-murdoch, street, street-journal
Deciphering the Meaning of Chinese Numbers : The Article Network
Because of the auspiciousness of certain numbers, Chinese will often pay large sums for phone numbers, street addresses, residence floors, driver's license numbers, license plate numbers and bank account digits.
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