eBooks
It’s Official, Here’s the Kindle
Monday, November 19th, 2007Amazon launched their e-book reader this morning. Here’s a demo from the Amazon site.
I can’t help thinking it looks like a big cheap calculator or perhaps a medical device. =:0 At the very least, Amazon should make it available in nice colors.
Interestingly, in this Newsweek article about the Kindle, the One Laptop per Child XO [...]
Amazon to Launch an E-Book Reader Next Week
Friday, November 16th, 2007Back in June, I wrote that large publishers such as HarperCollins and Random House are currently focusing a lot of energy and resources to publishing e-books. These publishers reported that, although sales for e-books never lived up to expectations since their launch in the mid to late 1990s, they now feel this is about to [...]
The Benefits of E-Books
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007In my last two posts, I mentioned that large publishing houses are predicting that e-books will become very popular in the near future. If these companies are right, and if we can solve all the issues around e-book formats, costs, etc., this shift from paper to electronic format will provide significant benefits to the world [...]
Why We Aren’t All Reading E-Books
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007Stephen Downes, in commenting about my last post about e-books, mentioned that he’s skeptical that e-books will take off:
“…like online music, what will make eBooks popular is not the e but the free. Establish the free market first. Only then can you even think of charging for (some) content.”
I agree that the growth of a [...]
E-Books: The Next Big Thing (Again)
Friday, June 22nd, 2007I recently had a chance to speak to representatives of HarperCollins, Random House, and other publishing firms and was surprised to see how much energy and resources these companies are currently allocating to e-books. Publishers report that sales for eBooks never lived up to expectations since their launch in the mid to late 1990s. But, [...]
