12:06 PM by Nate the great in E-Book Readers | Apple Devices

I just came across this demo video for iPad only edition of Alice in Wonderland by Atomic Antelope. It’s a little intense, and looks like it’s lot of fun.

But, it’s not an ebook. It’s a game based on a novel. With that in mind, this demo helped me understand what some people were saying at O’Reilly TOC about the future of publishing. If this is the future, then book publishing is going to die out.

via The Digital Reader

09:45 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

crossposted from The Digital Reader

Sharp announced their newest invention Saturday. It’s a prototype 10″ LCD screen that can create a 3D effect without glasses. Not that I said prototype; it’s not in production yet. Details are sparse; all we know at this point is that it has a touchscreen and that you can switch between 2D and 3D at the touch of a button.

Supposedly this new screen is being touted for e-reading; I don’t see how that would be useful. Video, certainly, but I think the 3D effect would get in the way of reading.

10:12 AM by ShortNCuddlyAm in E-Book General | News

I've just had a general email from them saying they've launched their ebook store. I think they did have some free ebooks before, but now apparently they have over 340000 to buy. I've not yet had a look at their selection, but that's what I'm off to do now.

Relevant bit of the site is here: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/category/3390/eBooks

Given they joined MR last year, I'm surprised we've not heard anything from them directly about this!

(Disclaimer: I have no link to the company except as a very happy customer of theirs for physical books)

07:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

Here are the highlights from the past seven days of MobileRead:

E-Book General - News

• iBooks, Wattpad Ipad apps avalaible now, B&N coming soon
• Smart Devices to release new E-reader - the R7
• Wiley launches new e-reader comparison site
• RUMOR: Best Buy will sell the Nook on 18 April
• RUMOR: Amazon Kindle Coming to Target on 25 April
• Introducing the Viewsonic VEB 620 & VEB 625

E-Book General - General Discussions

• Help revise the Epub standard

10:32 AM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

cross posted from The Digital Reader

Viewsonic announced 2 new e-readers yesterday at The Gadget Show Live in the UK.The details in the press release are rather sparse, but I do have some information.

The VEB 620 & VEB 625 both have a 6″ epaper screen, 2GB storage, SD card slot, and an accelerometer. The VEB 625 also has Wifi and a touchscreen. If you look at the picture on the left, you can see the letters 3G on the bottom edge. There was no mention in the press release, so don’t get your hopes up. Also, I’m still waiting to hear about format support.

The devices were only announced for a European release and are supposed to be available now. The projected retail is £175 (VEB 620) and £205 (VEB 625), and both prices are excluding VAT.

09:00 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

crossposted from The Digital Reader

Engadget was the first to report that the Kindle might be sold in Target stores. I can now provide 2 pieces of information that confirm the initial report.

I called my local store, and the code number in the image is a valid DPCI (Target internal stock #) for the Amazon Kindle.

I found another interesting tidbit while digging through Target's website. I don't know when they did this, but Target and Amazon have integrated their user databases. I was able to log in to Target with my Amazon.com account. Interesting.

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08:58 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | News

Engadget is reporting:

Looks like the e-reader wars are heating up, retail-style: we just found out that Target will be selling the Kindle later this month, and now multiple sources are telling us that Best Buy will start selling the Barnes and Noble Nook on April 18th -- a rumor we can back up with this shot of Big Blue's inventory system.

08:46 PM by Nate the great in E-Book General | General Discussions

In the next month, the EPUB Maintenance working group will complete a minor revision (2.0.1) of the EPUB 2.0 Standard. This corrects errors and inconsistencies and does not change functionality. During this process, many other significant enhancements have been identified that indicates that a need for major revision to EPUB that goes far beyond a maintenance update is needed.

13 current problems

We're 2 days into the 2 weeks set aside for public comments. We have a lot of smart people here at MR, and I know that we can generate useful ideas. I'm going to start a new topic for each of the 13 proposed changes. Let's use this thread as a catch-all discussion for anything not covered by the other 13.

• rich media & interactivity
• enhanced global language support
• enhanced (magazine) article support
• enhanced metadata support
• page-level layouts
• enhanced navigation support
• alignment with broadly-adopted Web standards
• annotation support
• mathematics support
• dictionaries (book-specific semantics)
• accessibility support
• mechanism for adding industry specific extensions
• relationship to approved national and international standards