Borders appear to be dying faster than expected. Mike Cane first noticed this on Saturday, and yesterday I read this about the closing sales: The liquidators have reported that store...Continue reading
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Sarah, Where Are You? Capitalism in eBookville
Sarah (Palin, that is), where are you? America desperately needs you and Michelle (Bachmann) and Glenn (Beck) and Rush (Limbaugh) and all your Tea Party compadres to save it from...Continue reading
From Windows 1 to Windows 7 in under a day
Some one thought it would be a good idea to try to install every version of Windows from 1.0 to Win7. It was interesting to see that what settings and...Continue reading
Screen size is important
Jakob Nielsen has something new to say about mobile devices. He’s written in the past on the problems of reading on mobile devices, and in today’s newsletter he expands on...Continue reading
Is your Borders store closing? Check out this list of indies
Last week I made a map of Borders bookstores that were closing. Over the weekend I came across a list of alternatives. Edward Champion put together a list of indie...Continue reading
Sony could pull music from iTunes in ongoing war with Apple
Michael Ephraim, the head of Sony for Australia and NZ, was interviewed by The Age yesterday. He is rather pissed with the recent behavior of Apple, and he’d really like...Continue reading
Paypal micropayments now available for ebooks & other digital goods
Paypal announced yesterday that their new system for micropayments is now up and running. In the online equivalent to dropping a quarter in the slot to buy a gumball, consumers...Continue reading
AOL to buy Huffington Post
Now this is interesting. The hot story this morning is that AOL have agreed to buy Huffington Post for $315 million USD. Founder and head of HuffPo Arianna Huffington will...Continue reading
Canada’s largest book distributor now bankrupt
H.B. Fenn filed for bankruptcy today. Normally I wouldn’t comment on a book distributor (they don’t seem to handle ebooks), but they released a statement today which said they had:...Continue reading
Pirated app shows up in the Mac Store and Apple don’t care
I just came across a blog post by Wolfire Games, an app developer. They recently uploaded their first game to the Mac Store, and much to their surprise a pirated...Continue reading
iTunes T&C updated – now mentions subs
As part of the launch of The Daily yesterday, Apple updated the T&C for iTunes. It looks like they’re going after a cut of all the money, not just the...Continue reading
App developers get a new deadline from Apple
You might recall from this whole iOS app fracas going on this week that Apple are now going to enforce an existing rule about in app sales. Basically if you...Continue reading
Amazon sold more ebooks last year than paperbacks
Amazon released their Q4 statement today, and it was a doozy. Amazon sold 115 ebooks last year for every 100 paperbacks. Ad they sold 3 times as many ebooks as...Continue reading
On that tank with E-ink camouflage
There’s a story going around today about how BAE, a defense cntractor, are planning to develop a new camouflage system for military vehicles. I just don’t see how it could...Continue reading
No, the iPad2 didn’t show up at CES 2011
A couple of videos are going around today that purport to show an iPad 2 dummy. Supposedly a case manufacturer was given a dummy in order to work on a...Continue reading