Kindle, schmindle. The best e-book reader money can buy is the iPhone ditto the iPod touch. Don't believe me? Consider: Amazon's Kindle sells for $349 and has a grayscale screen. It's way too big to fit in a pocket. It's good only for reading. And, let's face it: It's kinda ugly. ...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Flexible electronics, which are key to the production of portable devices with displays that bend and fold--thanks to the use of polymer materials--is a rapidly growing field, driven by consumer demand for smaller, lighter, and higher-performing electronic products with larger displays. Flexible displays and circuit technologies...
Amazon's Kindle eBook reader has enjoyed huge success since its launch last November, according to the company. Although the device houses a 6-inch rigid not a flexible display in its molded plastic case, it suggests the vast potential of electronic-paper technology. Lighter than a paperback at 10.3 ounces, the Kindle...
After years of hype, ‘e-newspapers’ are getting closer to reality. Can they save a shrinking industry? When scientists inside the MIT Media Lab began toying with “electronic paper” more than a decade ago, much of their enthusiasm focused on single killer app: a portable, paperless newspaper. E-newspapers would...
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The new Reader Digital Book from Sony is to be the first e-book reading device to support the EPUB format. The EPUB format is the International Digital Publishing Forum's XML-based standard format for reflowable digital books and publications. ...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-31 July 2008-EPUB format supported by Sony's Reader Digital BookC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The new Reader Digital Book from Sony is to be the first e-book reading device to support the EPUB format. The EPUB format is the International Digital Publishing Forum's XML-based standard format...
M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publisher Penguin has announced that it is to offer 1,500 titles in e-book format by September 2008 in readiness for the launch of the Sony Reader. The company revealed that it will offer all of its new books in e-book...
Global Information Services and Publishing Company Teams Up with Radiology and Pathology Publisher for Substantial Collaboration PHILADELPHIA -- Wolters Kluwer Health and Amirsys, Inc. announce a new book and eBook agreement that will combine the strong and growing Amirsys([R]) brand with the Lippincott Williams &...
AUSTIN, Texas, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Downloading audio books by John Grisham, James Patterson and others to audio devices - like iPods - just became a little easier and cheaper. BooksOnBoard, the premier online bookshop, is the first independent online bookseller to offer both subscription-free...
Epidemiology and Culture James A. Trostle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0521790505 CLOTH, 978-0521793896 PAPER, 978-0511110009 (E-BOOK); 228 PAGES, CLOTH $70.00, PAPER $27.99 Have you ever wondered whether the study you're reading in the medical literature has any 'real world'...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that the results of its first 2008 Global Student E-book Survey completed by nearly 6,500 students throughout the world, representing approximately 400 individual institutions, are now publicly available at no cost. Anyone...
AUSTIN, Texas & NEW YORK -- LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc., today announced that Simon & Schuster has selected the LibreDigital Warehouse solution for digital distribution of its content. Using LibreDigital's solution, Simon & Schuster's digital warehouse will serve as the...
We often need more USB ports, especially for laptops. There are plenty of small hubs that add more ports. They're cheap enough, and we have a couple. There are two main types of hubs: powered and unpowered. The powered ones come with an adapter that plugs...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it has been selected by Ambassador Books and Media, a premier provider of print and non-print materials to libraries of all types, to provide Ambassador's new e-book offering. Under the terms...
Horror author G. Wells Taylor is giving free copies of the popular first book in the Apocalypse Trilogy, When Graveyards Yawn, to all visitors at wildclown.com or gwellstaylor.com starting Friday, June 13, 2008 to celebrate the upcoming release of the second book in the series, The Forsaken, and...
Canadian horror writer G. Wells Taylor is sidestepping the Canadian literary establishment and giving free copies of the popular first book in his Apocalypse Trilogy, When Graveyards Yawn, to all visitors at wildclown.com or gwellstaylor.com starting Friday, June 13, 2008 to celebrate the upcoming release of the second...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Corporations can now help their employees quickly and easily find the relevant and timely information they require to solve problems and make important decisions. ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced the availability of two new subscription...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c93532) has announced the addition of "Library Use of E-books, 2008-09" to their offering. Data in the report is based on a survey of 75 academic, public and special libraries. Data is broken out by library budget size, for US and non-US...
Book titles representing the vast majority of sales from Simon & Schuster's catalog to be made available in 2008 SEATTLE & NEW YORK CITY -- Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Simon & Schuster, Inc. today announced that Simon & Schuster will make 5,000 additional titles available for Amazon Kindle...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c93247) has announced the addition of Future of E-Paper: A Technology Assessment and Market Forecast to their offering. Amazon's Kindle e-book reader is selling well. Rollable e-paper displays will be on the market this year. Serious progress is being made towards color...
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