Powercast and low-power displays such E Ink could be a logical match. See CNN/Biz 2.0 for details, as well as Wikipedia item....

Microsoft's new Deepfish browser is supposed to show Web sites well---or at least better than before---on little mobile phones even if the sites weren't designed for them. See link list from Microsoft, including a preview for prospective beta users. DOS fun on JVM-capable browsers In other software news, check out Garson O'Toole's interesting little comment on a way to run DOS on a browser using Java. "Classic DOS games such as Space Invaders, Lemmings. Commander Keen, and Prince of Persia can be played," Garson notes. "This means that DOS programs will be executable on even weakly-powered e-books in the future." Remember,...

Beware. If you choose the wrong blog host, you may not be able to move elsewhere---at least not easily. Check out Lorelle's invaluable wisdom. And speaking of control and content: We encourage TeleBlog contributors to use their articles in their own blogs as well. That way, they can better justify the time and come up with better posts. What's more, contributors can benefit from TeleBlog-created headlines and editorial tweaks, not to mention the additional exposure (our daily readership often surpasses libraryjournal.com's). New contributors welcome! Related: New Yahoo Group for writers who blog....

"Though Delaware libraries have more than twice as many computers as a few years ago---163 in 2000 versus 351 in 2005---they simply can't keep up with demand. At Rehoboth Beach in the summertime, lines get so long that librarians pass out receipts with a printed time to return to use the computer." - Delaware Online. The TeleRead take: I hope more libraries will grow up and not expect everyone to pass through the turnstile. Time for a TeleRead-style approach to help drive down the cost of hardware domestically for schoolchildren and other library users, not just abroad? Alas, the Digital...

On marketing guru Seth Godin's blog today, Godin talks about giving away e-books for free, and how it helped him sell his paper book Unleashing the Ideavirus. He explains that his publisher passed on publishing the book after hearing he wanted to give it away free on the net---so he decided to give it away free anyway and see what happened.A Google search finds more than 200,000 matches for the word 'ideavirus', which I made up. Some will ask, "how much money did you make?" And I think a better question is, "how much did it cost you?" How much...

Remember the argument that hardware companies don't want to make a low-cost e-book reader? Well, I wonder what the skeptics will say now. Quanta, the maker of the e-book-friendly OLPC laptop with the high-res screen, "will ship with its own XO-like laptops," according to Ars Technica, with a price in the $200 range. That's the start. Costs will only go down, a lot. And apparently the hardware will be sold in developed countries this year or next---including, I would at least hope, the States. So does this mean that by the end of 2007, I could be happily running FBReader or...

"Two pro-euthanasia doctors burned their own banned books, but revived the texts by giving them away for free on the Internet." - Banned Magazine via eBook Community list post. Related: Union Web censorship controversy. ...

FBReader 0.8.1b info here. New release includes Pepper Pad capability, in addition to rendering OpenReader, albeit without CSS and other trimmings. Meanwhile background on the newest OpenOffice is here. I understand kerning is now a default. Related: Anyone tried FBReader on the OLPC laptop?...

So what are the options for turning blogs into p-books? Tamas has just pointed to the Blurb site, which I'd mentioned earlier in a different context, along with Lulu. Any other options of interest, and why? Blurb works with Blogger, LiveJournal.com, TypePad, and WordPress.com blogs (independently hosted WordPress, too?). Related---for WordPress fans: Top 30 Wordpress Plug-ins in Blogosphere, via Digg. Check out No Ping Wait, which so far seems to be working with the TeleBlog's WP 2.0.9. Housekeeping: I'm out of time and will wait until later this week to do my list of ways the e-book industry can address...

E-book fans can appreciate the pluses of easy switching between, say, a book, a word-processor and a browser. You don't just want to read. You want to be able, if you're a student or a professional, to act on the information you pick up. Now suppose even the $100 laptop---yes, that'll be the price eventually---offered smooth multitasking. And so I read with interest the news of a beefed-up OLPC machine that actually uses less power. Other wrinkles---and why e-bookers should care Better video conferencing and more potential as an XP machine are among the other possibilities discussed by the independent OLPC News....

Reading about e-libraries, I feel as if I'm in Stalinist Russia and every Comrade wants to surpass the quota for pork or tractor production. So much talk of numbers! I understand. Just a fraction of the world's books are digitized at this point, and more e-books will mean a greater chance of discovering a quirky 19th century memoirist---or enjoying digital editions of Saul Bellow's novels, which, last time I checked, were still not available in electronic format at Fictionwise, Amazon/Mobipocket or eBooks.com, anyway. Still, I mostly agree with a blog post from Andrew Pace, an information technologist at the N.C. State...

While perusing the deals today in Publishers Marketplace, I came across a sale by agent Bob Diforio to HarperCollins for three erotic novellas penned by Delilah Devlin. The wording of the deal was so different that I wondered if it meant what I thought it meant. Delilah Devlin's three erotic novellas, again to May Chen at Harper, for immediate e-book publication, in a nice deal, by Bob Diforio at D4EO Literary Agency (World). After a confirmation e-mail from Mr. Diforio, it comes to light that HarperCollins is indeed going to offer these books as e-books first, with print options to come...