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May 27th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, Citizen Media, General
Apple announced today that you can now self-publish iBooks to the iBookstore. Here are Apple’s requirements for publishing an Apple iBook: Technical Requirements: An Intel-based Mac running OS X 10.5 or later At least 1 GB RAM QuickTime 7.0.3 or later. This is so you can encode and deliver content using our dedicated software. At […]
Tags: Apple iBook, Apple iPad, Citizen Media, eBook, iBook
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Mar 5th, 2010 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Apple iPad, Citizen Media, Featured Story
We get that Apple thinks the iPad is “magical and revolutionary”.
But what’s really magical and revolutionary is giving individuals the power to create content that can be shared instantly with people anywhere in the world.
The Apple iPad has the potential to be an interesting new platform for doing that – but where’s the PageMaker of iBooks?
Tags: Apple, Apple iPad, eBook, iBook, iPad, iTunes LP, PageMaker, the future of publishing
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Jul 17th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
From the day it was released, people have recognized that the Kindle is crippled by compromises. Since then: We’ve learned that the Kindle is a failure as a new media platform; Amazon is turning off Kindle features to keep publishers happy; and that “Buying” a book for the Kindle is like Russian roulette. A lot […]
Tags: Add new tag, Amazon, censorship, eBook, ereader, internet media, Kindle, new media trends, the future of books
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Jul 13th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, iPods & Portable Media Players
Amazon today announced that more than 2 million users have downloaded Lexcycle Stanza, an electronic book reader application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. Stanza users have downloaded over 12 million books. “These milestones highlight that many people are quite comfortable reading full length books via Stanza on their iPhones and iPod touch. From […]
Tags: Amazon, eBook, ereader, Kindle, Lexcycle, Stanza
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Jun 27th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: The New Media Update
Social media strategist Ron Ploof has published a new case study that is worth a read. “Johnson & Johnson Does New Media” is a concise e-book detailing how the health products giant has established its new media presence. Many companies, large and small, hesitate to jump into blogging, podcasting, video, and social networks, citing “competitive, […]
Tags: case study, corporate blogging, corporate podcasting, eBook, Griddlecakes, Johnson & Johnson, new media, Ron Ploof, RonAmok, social media
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Mar 4th, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Featured Story, iPods & Portable Media Players
Amazon has released a new Kindle iPhone App that expands the reach of the Kindle platform to Apple’s popular iPhone and iPod touch.
Will the Kindle iPhone application help make Amazon’s ebook platform relevant, or is it just another speedbump on the road to a more open ereading future?
Tags: Amazon, eBook, ereader, Kindle
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Feb 27th, 2009 |
By Elisabeth Lewin |
Category: General, The New Media Update
In a bid to stay afloat in an industry in crisis, magazine and newspaper publishing giant Hearst Corp. is getting set to launch an “electronic reader” later this year, a device designed with periodical-reading in mind. Hearst publishes a number of titles, including magazines Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Esquire, and newspaper The San Francisco Chronicle. Fortune […]
Tags: Amazon Kindle, eBook, Hearst Corporation, magazine, newspapers, Print Media Deathwatch, San Francisco Chronicle, Sony Reader, the future of news
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Feb 23rd, 2009 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General
Tim O’Reilly has published an opinion piece today saying that the Kindle must open up or die: Unless Amazon embraces open e-book standards like epub, which allow readers to read books on a variety of devices, the Kindle will be gone within two or three years. In developing the business plan for the Kindle, Amazon was no […]
Tags: Amazon, eBook, ereader, Kindle, the future of news, Tim O'Reilly
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Aug 23rd, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: Commentary, General, iPods & Portable Media Players
A lot of tech analysts, including TechCrunch and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, have been talking up their estimates of Kindle sales, and positioning Amazon’s device as the iPod of ebooks. Unfortunately for Amazon, the numbers being thrown around by TechCrunch & Citi appear to be bogus. According to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Amazon […]
Tags: Amazon, eBook, iPod, Kindle
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Aug 12th, 2008 |
By James Lewin |
Category: General, iPods & Portable Media Players
Citi analyst Mark Mahaney is bullish on the prospects for Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader. He estimates that Amazon (AMZN) will sell 378,000 units this year, double his initial guess. And he thinks instead of being a $750 million business that accounts for 3% of Amazon’s sales in 2009, the Kindle will be a $1.1 billion […]
Tags: Amazon, eBook, Kindle
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