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Podcast: Exploring Amazon with Data Guy

27 March, 2017 // 0 Comments

The pseudonymous Data Guy was interviewed on the Self-Publishing formula podcast last Friday. If you haven't met with DG or heard how he got into confounding the legacy industry with stats that even [Read More ...]

Apple’s Tim Cook Interviewed on Good Morning America

24 August, 2015 // 0 Comments

Apple CEO Tim Cook was interviewed (briefly and lightly) on a morning talk show today on Apple's role in the US govt's latest ed tech initiative, ConnectED, as well as other Apple miscellany. "I [Read More ...]

Telegraph: Bezos is Really a Nice Guy

17 August, 2015 // 0 Comments

In what could not possibly be a coincidence, The Telegraph published an interview yesterday where they fawned over Jeff Bezos. Unlike the NYTimes article from Saturday, the Telegraph's [Read More ...]

Kobo’s Tamblyn: “Our most valuable customers are people who read on both an e-ink device and on a third party device”

27 August, 2014 // 17 Comments

As a small ebook company competing in a market against 3 giant tech companies (Amazon, Apple, and Google), Kobo has had to be nimble and focus on areas where the big guys aren't investing any time or [Read More ...]

Stephen King on eBooks (videos)

1 August, 2013 // 7 Comments

I've just come across an old interview that revealed that Stephen King's ambivalence towards ebooks runs deeper than just a single novel. While this author has gotten a lot of media attention in the [Read More ...]

Bill Gates Doesn’t Believe Tablets Belong in the Classroom (video)

26 June, 2012 // 10 Comments

Love him or hate him, Bill Gates has been a strong influence on tech, education, and many other fields. The Chronicle posted an interview of Bill Gates yesterday, and they talked with him about a [Read More ...]

24Symbols to Focus on Spanish eBook Market First (Interview)

18 June, 2012 // 0 Comments

The newly launched ebookstore Bilbary got a lot of attention at BEA 2012 the week before last with their plans to get into ebook rentals and try other new business models. As interesting as that news [Read More ...]

OverDrive’s Dan Stasiewski interviewed about the WIN Platform

6 July, 2011 // 0 Comments

Sue Polanski was at the ALA Conference last week and she recorded an interview Dan Stasiewski, Public Relations Manager at OverDrive. She asks Dan about the new WIN platform and the other [Read More ...]

EC Media to shift from ebook readers to Apps

24 June, 2011 // 0 Comments

EC Media, an Indian tech company, announced that they were delaying plans for their later ebook readers and will instead focus on apps. The CEO of the company, J K Nair, was interviewed recently by [Read More ...]

Margaret Atwood on ebooks (video)

30 September, 2010 // 3 Comments

The Big Think shot this short video of Margaret Atwood. They only ask her 3 questions, but I think it's worth a listen. She is really interesting person to listen to and read. You should go find her [Read More ...]

BEA 2010: Hanvon

8 June, 2010 // 3 Comments

Hanvon was one of the more interesting booth visits at BEA 2010. They had quite a few models on display, including their current 5" ereaders, an 8" ereader, the Touchpad (10' Win7 tablet), and [Read More ...]