From an article in the Telegraph: A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition of the OED – known as OED3 – for the past 21 years. The dictionary’s owner, Oxford University Press (OUP), said the impact of the internet means OED3 will probably appear only in electronic form. The most recent OED has existed online for more than a decade, where it receives two million hits a month from subscribers who pay an annual fee of £240. “The print dictionary market is just disappearing, it is falling away by tens of per cent a year,” Nigel Portwood, the chief...

Here are a couple more reviews that are worth your time. I've selected excerpts that deal with the browser. The first is from The EBook Reader. Among other things the reviewer says: I opted for the WiFi only model because I couldn't foresee needing to use the 3G all that often—but now I'm regretting that choice because the new WebKit browser actually works better than I'd expected, at least with WiFi. It's not blazing fast and is somewhat limited but is useful for checking email, getting news updates, downloading free ebooks from Feedbooks, Project Gutenberg, Baen, etc., and the article...

The unofficial Amazon Kindle Blog has a review of the Kindle 3 and as part of it the author measured the contrast of the Kindle 3, Kindle 2, Nook and Sony PRS-600. Go over to the blog to find out how he did this. Here are his results: He also has some measurements of the current draw of the new Amazon booklight/case and so can predict its Kindle battery life impact....

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Here we go again: Categorize your Kindle books by the Dewey Decimal System Pictures of Kindle 2 and Kindle 3 screens Kindle 2 and 3 under the microscope Used game controversy continues; e-book vendors could stand to learn from Valve (again) by Chris Meadows “If it were my money, there’s no way I’d put up with this cr*p”, says young reader Lessons from tech support: E-books are not necessarily easy by Chris Meadows First AmazonCrossing title released: The King of Kahel Publishers, rejoice! A free e-business plan right here! by Joanna Ebook review by Joanna: Prestwick by David Hough by Joanna Reading in captivity – by Matt Hayler New service to...

From the Announcement: The American Council of Learned Societies’ Humanities E-Book has gone live with Koha. Eileen Gardiner, Director of ACLS Humanities E-Book, says, “ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) needed a secure and friendly environment in which to create and archive the MARC records that it distributes for its collection… Galen Charlton, VP for Data Services at Equinox, says, “I am pleased to welcome ACLS to the Koha community, and I take special note that they will be using Koha not as a traditional library but in support of their e-book MARC record distribution service. The...

New Features * Driver for the Kindle 3 * Users can now customize what actions appear in the toolbar and context menus via Preferences->Interface->Toolbars * Draw a thin broder around the cover in the edit metadata dialog. * Create (almost) all temporary files in a subdirectory so as not to clutter up temp directory * FB2 Output: Add option to try to generate FB2 sections from the TOC. This may or may not work, depending on the file, so use with care. ...

Just a reminder that we’ve got a spamtrap in effect because we receive literally hundreds of spam comments per day. They range from the generic (umpteen zillion ways to say, “Your blog is awesome! I totally agree with everything you have to say. You are such a good writer to know how to make your points so clearly!”) to the strange (the person who claimed to be held prisoner by the Irish mafia who were making him post spam for a Christmas website) to just plain garbage. Sometimes our spamtrap has been known to get a little overzealous...

Gizmodo’s Kat Hannaford has a piece indicating that LG is planning begin “mass producing” flexible e-paper screens in both 9.7” color and 19” monochrome sizes. While the prospect of color e-ink continues to be enticing (especially if they can solve the refresh rate problem to let it show video), Hannaford admits to being fascinated by the larger-sized monochrome screen. Weighing in at 130g and measuring 0.3mm thick, it could provide a basis for the newspaper-sized e-newspaper reader that Plastic Logic’s Que turned out not to be. Of course, price and battery life are going to be...

The Bookseller’s FuturEBook blog has an interesting look by Chris Meade at how today’s authors have more power to promote themselves and build relationships with fans than ever before, leading to a new viability for self-publishing. The Amplified Author of 2010 (term coined for authors engaged in the social web) can sit at her desk and speak directly to her readership through a blog, can expand that circle of readers gradually by using Twitter and other social networks, can find an active readership interested in offering criticism and ideas, can publish work through print...

Me and My Kindle has a great post today about this important topic. She’s reading an ebook on her Kindle, and then the camera pans back to reveal she’s reading it at the beach. (“Silver moons and paper chains,” the background music sings. “Faded maps and shiny things…)” The camera pulls back before you can read the whole page, as though Amazon’s trying to tease you. But one day, I decided I finally had to find out: exactly what ebook is that? If you want to find out what the book is, then go over and take a look. David Cassel...

Of course Threepress consulting is one of the major sources to go to for Epub technical stuff. That's why Liza's review is important. There's a lot of detail I don't begin to understand, but here's the bottom line: Overall I’m quite excited that there’s finally a commercial tool for normal humans that produces one-step valid ePub output. If the XHTML output is improved only to use I’ll be able to recommend Pages without reservation. However, a more recent tweet of hers says: Downgrading my Pages/ePub review after looking more at the XHTML: http://bit.ly/bFEjn9 < div > instead of <...