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US eBook Market to Eclipse Paper Book Sales By 2017, and Other Nonsense

5 June, 201313 May, 2017DeBunking5 Comments

The tea leaf readers at PricewaterhouseCoopers are back aging this week with more predictions for the future of the ebook market. According to their latest peyote-inspired...

Why I Don’t Think Apple Is Working on an iPad Maxi

2 June, 20132 June, 2013DeBunking6 Comments

Did you catch the rumor circulating last week about the supposed iPad Maxi? I did, but thanks to being between a couple conferences I didn't get...

Bill McCoy is Wrong – Epub3 Isn’t Ready

28 May, 201324 July, 2013DeBunking61 Comments

There's a new article up on the PW website tonight, but I'm not sure it's worth reading. Bill McCoy, the Executive Director of the IDPF, penned...

New Report Reaches the Obvious (And Wrong) Conclusion: There’s No Technical Justification for Incompatible eBook Formats

16 May, 201328 November, 2013DeBunking35 Comments

There's a new report out today from the EIBF, the European and International Booksellers Federation, which says that they could not find any technical reason to...

New iPad Mini Render, Specs “Leaked” Online – They’re Fake

15 May, 201328 January, 2016DeBunking, Rumors4 Comments

A new leak today shows what is reportedly the next iPad Mini, but I would bet dollars to donuts that it's not real. The Dutch gadget site...

New Documentary Paints Google as an Evil Conspiracy to Monopolize Knowledge (video)

9 May, 20139 May, 2013DeBunkingOne Comment

Have you heard about a movie called Google and the World Brain? It's a new documentary that takes aim at Google's book scanning project. As you...

Is Amazon Working on a 10″ Kindle Fire HD? Unlikely

4 May, 201313 May, 2017DeBunking2 Comments

Cnet invented the most delicious rumor on Friday. According to an analyst who is inclined to make unsubstantiated claims, Amazon's next tablet will have a 10...

No, WHSmith Didn’t Add DRM to Cory Doctorow’s eBooks

21 March, 20135 May, 2017DeBunking3 Comments

Did you catch the kerfluffle yesterday? In a story covered on TeleRead (and elsewhere) an indie author named Simon Royle accused the UK bookseller WHSmith of...

Want Siri to to Turn Your eBooks into Audiobooks? Sorry, Macworld’s Trick Can’t Do That

18 March, 201319 March, 2013DeBunking8 Comments

There's a really cool post over at Macworld UK today that is being passed around, tweeted, and shared. It shows you what looks to be a...

The Telegraph Discovers That Amazon Doesn’t Like Expensive eBooks – Oh, the Horror!

11 March, 201313 April, 2016DeBunking4 Comments

Ever since Amazon started offering a 70% royalty option in KDP they have been very clear on the requirements, and Amazon even posted them on a...

That “super-early iPhone prototype” Probably Wasn’t a Prototype

11 March, 201310 February, 2017DeBunking4 Comments

Who's up for a background story in hardware development? Have you seen the new article over on Ars Technica about the iPhone prototype? They posted a cool-looking...

How Would Google’s Same-Day Shipping Work, Exactly?

5 March, 20137 December, 2015DeBunking8 Comments

Techcrunch reported this morning that Amazon might be getting some competition.Google is supposedly working on a same day shipping service: Google is stealthily preparing to launch...

Ridiculous Rumor: Apple iWatch to Run iOS, Ship Later This Year

4 March, 20134 March, 2013DeBunking5 Comments

Have you ever wondered if it was possible for a gadget to manifest itself simply out of the collective desire of the worshiping masses? As I...

When Numbers Lie: Apple iBooks Revenue Estimated to be Over a Billion Dollars

28 February, 201328 February, 2013Apple, DeBunking18 Comments

Apple has never been one to give specific details about how much content they are selling, so when I read today that an analyst with Asymco...

Google’s Andy Rubin Denies Rumors of Google Retail Stores

26 February, 201326 February, 2013DeBunkingLeave a comment

The hopes of many tech bloggers were dashed today by the news that Google SVP Andy Rubin can't see why the tech giant should get into...

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