Saturday, February 23, 2013

Tech Notes 2/1/13



News from DBW


  • ·         (1/16/13) Searchable content provided by Inkling: By chunking their content into cards, ebook startup Inkling can sell their content piecemeal for very cheap. They have a proprietary CMS which allows content to be searched using a browser and Google Search.


  • ·         (1/16/13) Kids Reading Ebooks Doubles—according to Scholastic, the number of kids reading ebooks has doubled in the last two years.  Kids who read ebooks are reading more, especially boys.


  • ·          (1/5/13) The real reason Barnes and Noble is failing: It’s because the world has more non-Americans than Americans, and Barnes & Noble has always been curiously hostile to the non-American. This is an interesting comment about the international digital book buyer

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  • ·         (1/10/13) From TechRadar: Kindle Panel View now available on the Paperwhite and Touch devices.
  • Amazon has released a new software update for the Kindle Touch, giving it a new lease of life after it was usurped by hot young upstart, the Kindle Paperwhite.
  • New features include a revamped user interface in which your archived books and mags will be stored under the heading Cloud, some enhanced parental controls, book cover view in your library and store, recommendations and better ability to handle graphic novels and comics by letting you read panel-by-panel.
  • ·         (1/23/13) Apple Sells 22.9m iPads and 47.8m iPhones in this quarter. In other news, Apple shares tanked 10% (huge) in after-hours trading, due to Mac and iPod sales slipping. Oops.
  • ·         (1/30/13) Speaking of profit and loss, Amazon posted its fourth-quarter earnings: $21 billion in revenue, which is actually is a loss of $39 million on the year. Its stock went UP in after-market trading by at least 10%. I like this perspective from Quartz. The Kindle Fire HD tablet was the most popular item in 2012, and Amazons tablets and e-readers take the top four spot of worldwide best-sellers around the world. Bloomberg
  • ·         (2/1/13) More bad news from Barnes & Noble: sales of the Nook tablet fell considerably short of expectations over the holiday, leading some analysts to question the Nook’s long-term viability in the increasing crowded tablet marketplace.

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