Nate Hoffelder at The Digital Reader has been tracking signs of new ereader activity coming from Sony, and despite the company disavowing its own executive's slip-up it looks like a new device is on the way. The first clue is that a device called the PRS-T1 Digital Book Reader was found last week on the FCC website. The second clue is that several ebook models are showing up as out of stock or discontinued on the Sony Style store. Via The Digital Reader ...

Kids will lead the coming surge in ereader adoption, suggests the Boston Globe in an article this weekend: "This is a generation of kids that have learned to communicate, search and purchase on very small devices, like mobile phones," said James McQuivey, Forrester Research media analyst. "This year is a guinea pig year, next year the move will be en masse." In addition to being seen as non-threatening by kids, ereader prices are dropping while their capabilities continue to increase, and publishers are aggressively expanding their children's and YA ebook catalogs. Read the full article at Boston.com. ...

College bookseller Akademos issued a press release earlier this week announcing the launch of a digital reader "that will allow its member institutions to access electronic content from traditional publishers and from open resources, such as the Connexions Consortium, World Public Library, the Guttenberg Project, and many others." The announcement says the device displays EPUB files, will allow students to make notes, and will apparently be linked to an online store where students can purchase print copies. Unfortunately, that's about all it says—there's no other info about the device, and no links to other info pages. (Even the link to...

A new remote autograph service called Kindlegraph has been popping up around the blogosphere the past several days, and it demonstrates a way to approximate the classic book signing experience. A reader signs in and requests a signature, and the author completes the request online using a simple form hosted by digital signature company DocuSign. In theory the signed "page" would be integrated into the actual book, but at this proof of concept stage it produces a one-page document that includes an image of the book's cover, the author's message, and an image of the author's signature. In the screencast, Kindlegraph's developer...

What's the eReading device forecast look like? More gadgets than you can shake a stick at... Browsing through articles and press releases on new tablets and eReaders coming out is becoming a full-time occupation. After querying many of my business contacts, fellow writers & book reviewers only a handful knew of an off-center new tablet/eReader coming out that they were excited about, let alone knowledgeable enough about to warrant purchasing. The majority of folks replying played it safe, going for one of the big three: iPad, Kindle or Nook. Kobo's made a bit more of a name for itself in the...

Lisa Lewis' post in The New York Times' City Room blog yesterday brought up a familiar complaint about the social aspect of ereaders—namely, that there isn't much of one, unless you want to talk about the gadget itself. It wasn’t the first time I’d flirted my way into a Saturday night date with a simple phrase: “I love that book.” [...] I had one good pickup line, and e-readers ruined it. I can no longer hit on a handsome man on a long commute by asking about his book — because I can’t see it. [...] I promise there is...

Overseas attendees at this week's Tokyo International Book Fair can leave their phrase books at home since they will only need the line "atsui desu ne?", the ubiquitous Summer greeting that means "It's really hot, isn't it?". Temperatures in the high 80s will be compounded by crushing humidity that can stifle even the liveliest of debates. The eBook International Session boasts three respected executives for its speakers but these speakers may find the session's agenda is more of a hindrance to debate than the weather at Tokyo Big Sight. The session blurb promises answers to questions such as...

From the press release: Ectaco Inc., the world's leader in portable language learning and the manufacturer of the jetBook eBook Reader announced today that it has teamed up with Hanvon, a leading global eBook Reader manufacturer and character recognition technology provider to create the first ever eBook Reader oriented towards education and implementation into standard classroom usage for teachers and students worldwide. These two brand new Educational eBook Readers will be showcased at the 2011 Book Expo of America in New York. The first educational device is the jetBook K-12 for the US market features one-of-a-kind interactive technology to aid students in honing...

An article in Knowledge @Australian School for Business discusses the fact that the present Internet addresses system, known as IPv4, will have literally used up its 4.2 billion addresses soon: APNIC, the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, is the registry that issues Internet addresses for the booming Asia-Pacific region, and is expected to be the first to run out. Registries in other regions may last just a few months longer. The article's writers describe the new address system, IPv6, and its 340 billion billion billion addresses, as the system that will save the Internet from the end of capacity.  It...

In  January of last year, I originally argued the librarian’s dilemma was that of figuring out what course of action libraries should take in the eBook arena.  A year later, it seems there is still no clear answer!  Given the recent Google Books decision (info via the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog) and the public discussions from both OverDrive and Harper Collins, I don’t think any clear answer is coming soon! So what does a library do?  Remember, the choices they make will ultimtely affect you, the eBook buyer, reader and enthusiast! Ultimately, I think libraries should focus for now on the free...

Gear Diary blogger Douglas Moran has an entertaining and extremely true rant on one of the big problems with the commercial e-book world these days—the proliferation of differing formats, each of which requires its own reader application. On TeleRead, we call this problem the “Tower of E-Babel”, but Moran just calls it extremely irritating. Moran looks at the old Barnes & Noble e-book reader application, based on Fictionwise’s eReader. All in all, he writes, it was a very good application, and did everything he wanted it to. Then B&N essentially abandoned it in favor of their much-less-functional Nook application,...

For those adventurous people who have messed about with their Nook Color and now need to return it to normal, Android Central has a forum post that tells you how to do this.  The post tells you how to: - restore to Stock 1.0.1 via ROM - restore again to Stock 1.0.1 via B&N Factory reset (which actually works) - Update to 1.1.0 (which will now work w/sideload file) - Root 1.1.0 via Auto-Nooter 3.0 Detailed instructions on each step are given....