Travis Alber, Kat Meyer’s latest interviewee in her Digitizers series, is co-founder of BookGlutton. See more on Travis at the end. Launched in January 2008, BookGlutton is a cross between a book, a computer and a book group—a Web-based reading platform that lets users discuss books from...

As my last foray into Apple rumour land states: I've been "predicting" a Mac Tablet for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7" screen. Now Om has been reading the tea leaves and finally thinks that a Mac Tablet / Netbook / Super iPhone is som...

Is the typography on Shortcovers, a new e-book service, up to snuff? Joe Clark, in fawny , his Web log, says no. An example is Sharp Teeth, Toby Barlow’s novel, which Joe describes as "written in free verse about marauding human lycanthropes." Joe complains of problems in both the pa...

Filed under: Consumer experience, Amazon.com (AMZN) It's not too hard to find stories on the latest Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) e-book reader, the Kindle 2. But the newly released Kindle has a lot to live up to, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of original Kindle e-book owners. Fifty-eight percent ...

Here’s an excerpt from UK publication The Bookseller. Amazon’s Genevieve Kunst has urged “all publishersâ€� to get digitising if the UK is “everâ€� to see the launch of the Kindle device. … But Kunst explained: “We launched in the US with 90,000 e-books available - we waited unti...

Keith R. Solomon, Theo C.M. Brock, Dick De Zwart, Scott D. Dyer, Leo Posthuma, Sean Richards, Hans Sanderson, Paul Sibley "Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals" CRC | 2008-05-23 | ISBN: 1420073907 | 408 pages | PDF | 6 MB A wide-ranging compilation of tech...

It is hard for me to believe that we didn’t post anything about Kindle 2. The Los Angeles Times has an interesting summary about the new Kindle. Here is a video of Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos briefly introducing Kindle 2. The Kindle 2 is sleeker and faster, stores more books and keeps a charge longer....

Hello, Amazon? You already know. My publisher and I prefer that DRM not be inflicted on The Solomon Scandals. Now here are similar thoughts from Simon Haynes, author of the Hal Spacejock series, the first book of which is a free download to entice you to purchase the others. Buying details for the o...

Filed under: Internet, News There's a lot of news in the eBook space these days. First Amazon launches the new Kindle 2 eBook reader. Then the company follows it up with the launch of an eBook app for the iPhone. But Amazon ain't the only game in town. Yesterday Barnes & Noble announced that it ...

As regular readers know, we’ve been slaving away at a book on social media marketing for about a year now. It’s coming out in August of this year, and after much negotiation, we finally have a title. Wait for it: Friends With Benefits: Online Marketing with Blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and ...