Daily Archives: April 20, 2011

Apple Reports No eBook Growth

Apple Shares Up, Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadow Weak iPad 5:08 iTunes revenue $1.4 billion thanks to music, apps, books, etc. 2,500 publishers in over 20 categories on iBooks store, 100 million books. Wait. What?

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eBooks: It’s Betamax Versus VHS All Over Again

The Wikipedia long version: Videotape format war The shorter to the point version: The Betamax vs VHS Format War The victory was not due to any technical superiority (Betamax is arguably a better format) … And so it has been … Continue reading

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YahooMail UnFriends Opera

Nine out of ten times after I hit Send on a YahooMail email, Opera crashes. I have had ten such crashes today. It used to be Opera would crash with YouTube being opened for a while. That’s mainly fixed. But … Continue reading

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Bailing On Twitter: Timing!

Twitter deals with noisy users by hiding tweets Wow. That is really going to screw up fast-paced conversations on Twitter and scheduled conferences such as Follow The Reader, eProduction, and The ISBN Hour. It’d also kill the multi-tweet rants I … Continue reading

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Kindle Library Lending: ePub Is Dead

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books Kindle Library Lending and OverDrive – What it means for libraries and schools July 1, 2010: The Abominable Kindle Wins? If Amazon gets public libraries on board, it would be the death … Continue reading

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Filed under Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Digital Overthrow, eBooks: General, eInk Devices, Friction, Kobo Reader, Public Libraries, Sony Reader

If It’s Mobile, It’s Not Private

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves Yet according to Comments there, this is not news. What I found interesting in the Comments was a link to a presentation about webOS.

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Filed under Android, Infowar, iOS, Police Abuse, Rights, webOS

“Winning” Before It Was Polluted By You Know Who

How You Win Winning is not random, fast, or glorious. It is slow, cumulative, and almost sneaks up on you. In some respects it just comes down to showing up and sticking around.

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Another Sleeper Awakens

Physical Media Has To Go. I’m Digital Only From Here. Moving across town last summer was a real eye opener in terms of seeing how tied we still are to physical things. Beyond all our sundry items needed to survive, … Continue reading

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