06:03 PM by dottedmag in More E-Book Readers | Bookeen

We have sucessfully installed the Cybook Gen3 firmware on the Netronix EB-100: Flickr.

This is probably doable on the STAReBOOK too (and other clones, such as Ganaxa), so we need brave people who are willing to try.

All the information we've found so far is here: http://openinkpot.org/wiki/CybookGen3; if you need any help - just join our IRC channel: #openinkpot on irc.oftc.net network and ask the question.

06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review

In case you've missed any MobileRead news from this week, here is our usual roundup:

E-Books - News and Commentary

• Kindle price drop at Amazon, $359.00 free shipping
• Feedbooks will launch e-book reader this fall
• Windows 7 To Incorporate Multitouch Elements
• Jeff Bezos at "D": Some Kindle stuff
• Simon and Schuster to Release 5,000 books for Kindle
• Cybook Gen3 firmware on Netronix EB-100

E-Books - Deals, Freebies, and Resources

• Cool New Fiction! Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Updated Garnet VM for Nokia ITs Released

Miscellaneous - Feedback

• MobileRead Reorganization - Part II (E-Book Tools Forum)

09:40 PM by Strether in E-Book General | News

LOS ANGELES - Amazon.com said today that publisher Simon & Shuster will make 5,000 more books available electronically for the Amazon Kindle, bumping to 125,000 the number of titles available for the wireless device that lets users download and read books.
The announcement came ahead of an address by Amazon.com Chief Executive Jeff Bezos at the BookExpo America convention in Los Angeles.

from: AP

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The news release concerns the Kindle but you'd have to guess the books would be released in other formats, too.

Jim

07:07 PM by Nate the great in E-Book Readers | Alternative Devices

I just got this email:

Dear GVM User,

Since our launch in November 2007, the ACCESS Garnet VM Beta for Nokia Nseries can boast over 15,000 downloads! Like you, thousands of Garnet VM users around the world still enjoy using Garnet OS applications for their simplicity and their diversity. During the last six months, we have received a tremendous response about the Garnet VM launch. You have shared valuable comments about the features you want to see in the next version of Garnet VM and the improvements you want in the applications. We listened to our GVM community and thanks to your help made some changes. We have added the most requested feature - support for full screen rendering. We have also identified and made other improvements to Garnet VM including providing full support for MathLib that will enable many additional applications to run on Garnet VM.

Today, we are pleased to announce that the new ACCESS GVM Beta 2 for Nokia Nseries is available:

Download the ACCESS GVM Beta 2 from our web site: http://www.access-company.com/products/gvm/

Regards,

The Garnet VM Team

Yippee!

06:45 PM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Feedback

In recent months, we've seen an impressive increase of e-book tools created by talented developers from our community. Many of these tools are not necessarily device-specific; hence the idea to create a brand new forum parent dedicated to them.

I propose: We create a new forum parent labeled "E-Book Tools", which will be positioned between "E-Books" and "E-Book Devices". This new parent will contain subforums dedicated to popular tools, such as calibre, Book Designer, Mobiperl, and so on. We'll decide together which are the "popular" ones. The parent will also contain a catch-all subforum for collecting discussions of less popular or less actively maintained applications.

E-Book Tools
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-- Book Designer (description)
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-- calibre (description)
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...
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-- Other Tools

Is there anything you would do differently? Something I am missing or forgetting? It's your feedback that will continue to help us improve our community.

Thanks!

Alex

04:29 PM by rmeister0 in E-Book General | News

The interesting bullet points:

Bezos says on title by title basis; 125,000 titles available for Kindle. Kindle units are more than 6% of those total sales of that universe of titles.

Lowered the Kindle price to $359 from $399; Kindle is selling well, we’re extremely happy about it. There will a second version, a third version, a tenth version. He says the second version is not that near.

Bezos says over time, real books won’t go away, just as horses have not gone away.

Full blog entry: http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderd...ns-jeff-bezos/

For video highlights of the D6 interview with Bezos, click here and here.

11:03 AM by NatCh in E-Book General | News

It may not, strictly speaking, be "mobile," but I suspect it's of some interest to this community anyway:

Microsoft announced yesterday over at the Wall Street Journal's "All Things Digital D6" conference that Windows 7 will support some of the really cool stuff we heard them noising about a couple of years ago with the Surface Computing concept.

Unlike Surface, this one will use a special touchscreen (rather than cameras and projectors) to work its magic, but we may start seeing it as early as next year ... also unlike Surface, apparently, though they did hint that they're still working on that one.

05:41 AM by John H in E-Book General | News

According to Jean Michel Billaut (Google Translation):

"...Feedbooks, a young French start-up that has developed the first platform for downloading digital books multi-formats, including the famous ePub, Feedbooks therefore, will market its own e-reader at the beginning of next, in large retailers in France. "