ASDA announces 52 pounds eBook reader
Supermarket giant Asda has started selling an 5" colour ebook
reader for just 52 pounds – believed to be the lowest priced reader
available in the UK... Read more »
10 Awesome and Bizarre iPhone and iPad Accessories
Recently, we looked at the our favorite apps from Macworld
followed by a post on the future of the Expo. Today we’ll wrap up
this... Read more »
E-reader market doubles over Christmas in the UK
The e-reader market doubled over Christmas, according to
statistics given out by the Publishers Association at its annual
digital seminar... Read more »
With iPad 2 All But Confirmed – What’s That? iPad 3 in Six Months!? Why it Makes Sense
So if you’ve been paying attention you would have seen that,
despite the usual Apple reticence to say anything about anything,
the slimmer, lighter iPad 2, with front-facing camera, is all-but-
locked in to ship late-March early-April, according to the Wall
Street Journal. An announcement is expected this month.
But you’re reading the headline and shaking your head, right?
iPad 3 this year too – getouttahere. Read more »
Global eReader Sales Expected To Grow To 8.2 Billion Dollers By 2014
Global eReader sales revenue is expected to grow from about
1.9 billion dollers in 2010 to 8.2 billion dollers in 2014, according to a new
report from the Yankee Group. Yankee also predicts that unit
sales will rise from just under 11 million in 2010 to nearly 72
million in 2014... Read more »
Memo from Apple to Ebook Retailers: Get In-App Payments Next Month or Get Out
As I wrote last week, Apple has made a business decision to
stop the "freeloader" ebook retailer apps from kicking buyers out
to their own site to spend money. While a spokesperson from
Apple said they hadn’t "changed our developer terms or
guidelines", they sure as hell have changed their enforcement
policies. Whether it’s a good idea is a different matter. It’s done... Read more »
HP TouchPad: our first impressions
So HP has made its first real tablet play. And the results are...
impressive, if not surprising. We've previously seen some
renders of the new HP TouchPad, but we knew little more about
it until last night... Read more »
6 Top Tech Trends on the Horizon for Higher Education
Mobile devices are one year away from transforming education.
For the third straight year.
The 2011 Horizon Report, an annual look at technology trends
affecting higher education, points to mobile devices as one of six
technologies to watch... Read more »
The physical book as souvenir
2011 is the year for digital in publishing, if twitter is to be
believed. And with eBook sales accounting for up to 40% of
sales in the US, the news that 96 reading devices will be on the
market by the end of the year and that now everyone and their
granny has had a go on an iPad, who can argue?... Read more »
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