At the Publishing Point meeting in NYC. For any of our readers in the City and environs, check out the Publishing Point website and see what's coming up. They always do the most interesting stuff. Check out their site for videos of their past presentations. Some ebook related, some not. Today they presented Co-founder of Foursquare and an expert in mobile apps, Naveen Selvadurai, who described the Foursquare site and the concepts behind it. The video will be up on their Publishing Point site soon. Have more than 2million users and over 100 million checkins after...

The iPad is so popular these days that everything is coming out with special interfaces for it. There was Pulse, which turns a selection of favorite RSS feeds into something similar to a magazine. Then there was Flipboard, which does the same for links posted to social networks. Now here are a couple more web media joining the party. Cooliris, a company known for its browser and iPhone photo apps, has created an app for the iPad called Discover that imports content from Wikipedia and reformats it into an iPad-magazine-style interface. Cooliris hopes eventually to bring the same reformatting technique...

From Amazon Kindle Review. I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere: Here’s are the new fonts Kindle 3 and Kindle WiFi now support - 1. Chinese Traditional and Simplified. This would explain the rumors of Amazon getting its Chinese subsidiary ready to ship Kindle 3 in China. 2. Japanese. Japan is a pretty big market and this should allow Amazon to take a shot. 3. Korean. Obviously lets Amazon target North and South Korea. 4. Cyrillic. This will allow support for Russian, Bulgarian, Bosnian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Mongolian, Tajik, and other languages....

 SEE THE MAIN NEW KINDLE INFO SECTION for details. This image at the left shows how much smaller the new Kindle 3G/WiFi and Kindle WiFi-Only are when seen next to the Kindle 2 International model. I saw this image from Amazon when reading Wilson Rothman's excellent summary for MSNBC of the new Kindle features, putting it all into perspective.  It was refreshing after reading another report, one representing the Kindle as a giant reptile that won't die although the unnamed writer really wants it to be buried. "HANDS-ON WITH AMAZON'S ZIPPY, ALLURING...

This is really cool. The Book Depository has a site that will show you who just bought a book from them, what the book was, and where the purchase was sent. New stuff pops up every second. Mesmerizing. ...

From the press release: Australian digital publishing services provider Realview today confirmed that over 30,000 editions from over 2,000 publications it produces for clients can now be interactively viewed on the Apple iPad, without the need to download anything from the App Store. "We've invested in a complete redesign of our viewer so it now launches touch enabled digital publications directly on the iPad," explains Realview CEO, Mr. Richard Lindley. "Readers don't need to wait for an application to download or wait for updated content because with the latest Realview viewer, access to their favorite magazine, newspaper or catalog is instant....

Tim Carmody at Snarkmarket points to a fascinating article at Triple Canopy on the pre-history of digital media, and the future of the book. It is an interview with Bob Stein, computer pioneer and the director of the Institute for the Future of the Book. It covers a number of topics including his unsuccessful early effort to put the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica on a laserdisc (it turned out to be unreadable), how laserdiscs first got commentary tracks, and, well, the future of the book. I find the magazine-in-a-browser format a little annoying, but the content is fascinating...

If you are new to this whole confusing area of ereaders and epub you might want to take a look at Laptop's primer which was published yesterday. With a steady stream of new eReaders and eBook stores popping up, consumers now have a wide range of choices when it comes to purchasing digital books. But even though most devices can read the EPUB format, it’s not always clear whether books purchased for one reader will work on another. If you shop around and find the book you want at the lowest price in Barnes & Noble’s store, will you...

From the Announcement (2 pages; PDF) [Clip] The report released by COSLA [Chief Officers of State Library Agencies eReader Task Force] concludes that the availability of low-cost, library-friendly devices will not be a problem. The market is evolving rapidly, and prices are falling close to $100, and will probably drop below that price point in the near future. This means devices will be affordable for many library users and some libraries may even be able to afford to purchase devices to demonstrate and to lend to library users. Having concluded that state librarians needn’t worry about eReader...

Although my new day job meant I couldn’t stay up late to watch Jeff Bezos’s guest appearance on Charlie Rose last night, MediaBistro’s EBookNewser has the liveblogged scoop. Some interesting pithy comments from Bezos—he says the number one thing people are doing on the iPad right now is playing video games, while the number one thing people are doing on the Kindle is reading books. And he favorably compares the price of the Wi-Fi Kindle with what some people spend on sunglasses. And Bezos also explains why he doesn’t reveal sales figures: We...

(Spotted by eagle-eyed TeleReader Felix Torres!) First it was the markdowns on the Kindle 2, and the even lower markdowns on refurbished Kindle 2s. This should have been an early clue, given that it’s much the same thing that happened to the Kindle 1 shortly before the Kindle 2 came out. When the Kindle 2 went out of stock on Amazon, it seemed obvious a replacement would be coming soon—and now the Wall Street Journal is covering Jeff Bezos’s next e-ink marvel. Engadget has a closer look at the device (and a bigger version of the...

The Bookseller reports that Bloomsbury is going to digitize and e-publish the million-page personal archive of World War II prime minister Sir Winston Churchill. The archive reportedly includes “drafts and notes for his speeches, and key correspondence and papers." The article does not mention whether this archive includes any books, either public-domain or still under copyright. It’s hard to imagine any single person’s archive being a million pages in size without them—but then, it’s hard to imagine it even with them. If any are included, I wonder what copyright issues Bloomsbury would have to clear? The archive...