More and more eReaders are appearing. Here's another new one from Elonex. It supposedly handles EPUB and Adobe, but I can't find any other details as to formats. From The Bookseller: Borders UK has unveiled its new 'cheaper' ebook reader. The Elonex ebook has been launched in all of the bookshop chain's stores today (30th June), and is being marketed at £189 as a cheaper option to the Sony Reader. The new device comes with 100 titles already pre-loaded and can hold up to 1,000 books (on a separate memory card). The titles can be read in landscape or...

Now this is a big deal, at least to me. The Economist is probably the finest news publication in the world, IMHO. I am going to run, not walk, to subscribe. With The Economist and Foreign Affairs what more could you want? (Unfortunately the Kindle price and the paper price are almost exactly the same, but I'm going to subscribe anyway.) From Amazon's Kindle Blog: You've been asking for it, and we're pleased to deliver The Economist. The Economist is one of the premier sources for the analysis of world business and current affairs, providing authoritative insight and opinion...

The posting includes a video, which I can't seem to embed here. Thanks to Digital Koans for the link: The Library of Congress’s steadily growing digital collections arrive primarily over the network rather than on hardware media. But that data transfer can be difficult because different organizations have different policies and technologies. The Library – with the California Digital Library and Stanford University – has developed guidelines for creating and moving standardized digital containers, called “bags.” A bag functions like a physical envelope that is used to send content through the mail but with bags, a user sends content from one...

It isn’t April Fool’s Day, so this must be true: Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory is paying $7 million to buy embattled BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay. (Here is the press release (PDF).) Hans Pandeya, CEO of Global Gaming Factory, seems to believe that these pirates can be rehabilitated. He states: "The Pirate Bay is a site that is among the top 100 most visited Internet sites in the world. However, in order to live on, The Pirate Bay requires a new business model, which satisfies the requirements and needs of all...

Thus says George Weidenfeld in this article about him. Lord Weidenfeild is founder of the British publishing firm Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The article has all sorts of interesting stuff. Well worth reading. "I believe the electronic book has a future," says Weidenfeld. "But that is the case for reading for information - some genres will, broadly, disappear in paper format. There will still be beautiful books, though, ones you'd want on your library shelves. They will remain as works of art or in the case of a book you want to have constantly in front of you. It...

An Espresso Book Machine is a hit with both the Northshire Bookstore and its many fans in little Manchester Center, Vermont. Such a gizmo can get a 300-page book into a waiting shopper’s hands in minutes. Bookstores can use Espressos to help local writers break into print---not just conjure up classics and forgotten midlist books from central databases. The Northshire machine is still an experiment, but as I noted several weeks ago, the early results are encouraging. For example, a local rabbi has printed more than 300 copies of his novel. “Lurch”: More...

Wattpad’s Android plans aren’t the only good news for e-book-loving fans of the OS. Dell is working on a Web-capable gizmo a bit larger than the iPod Touch, says the Wall Street Journal. It runs Android. That would be another carrot for developers to do Android-based e-book apps. The new handheld isn’t a sure thing, but if plans move ahead, it could go on sale later this year, perhaps with an ARM chip. It may or may not come with phone capabilities. If it does, Dell may offer it through cellular carriers. Related: Techmeme roundup and The...

“An updated version of FBReader for Google Android is available from the Android market. The source package is downloadable from the homepage. This version uses Android native API for speed-up a book opening. New ‘androidish’ icons are used in the menu and library tabs." – Nikolay Pultsin, FBReader developer. Related: Android-based iPod rival might be on the way from Dell: Boost for e-books....

A major e-book success story has been unfolding just a few miles from me, over in Fall Church, Virginia, a nice, upscale suburb where the cops once rode around in Volvos. Focused on erotic romance, a publisher named Loose Id has moved more than a million books---mostly in E. And the editor in chief is Irene Daisy Williams of Falls Church, whom fans know as Treva Harte. She recently retired after two decades as a lawyer at the U.S, Patent and Trademark Office. But along the way, in addition to publishing others, she was cranking out hundreds of thousands of words...

One reader suggested that it would be great to have a weekly roundup of posts. It would take some time, however, and I'm not sure I could do it. If I did it would have to be in the form below, where the title is in the url. What do our readers think? Do you want this? let me know because I don't want to do it unless it would be a real service. I would do it every Sunday evening for the previous week, and you would have to read the titles from the...

The Book Glutton people are so nice that it is always a pleasure to give them a little bit of publicity. This is from a press release I received: The Random House Publishing Group has joined forces with the social reading platform BookGlutton to offer a chapter giveaway promotion of Sarah Dunant’s forthcoming novel SACRED HEARTS, on sale July 14. Beginning today, the Random House imprint will make the first four chapters of SACRED HEARTS available to BookGlutton.com users. Special features will include an essay by the author and notes sprinkled throughout the pages about her extensive research for the...

From the Publishers Weekly daily email report: B&N president William Lynch said the company launched the app based on the growth it has seen over the past year in its mobile traffic. With the app, he said, users can access “exclusive content and customer reviews, as well as information about the more than 50,000 events in our stores.” They can also purchase items, view B&N Recommends lists, watch video interviews with authors and access other features of BN.com. Thanks to a partnership with LinkMe Mobile from Evryx Technologies, Inc. and Spotlight Mobile, Inc., customers can use their iPhone or iPod touch...