TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » ereaders http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 00:53:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Are E-Book Sales Declining in Canada? http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/are-e-book-sales-declining-in-canada/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/are-e-book-sales-declining-in-canada/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 15:15:03 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=85490 An interesting report is circulating the book blogs, alleging that e-book sales in Canada are down almost five percent. I’ve seen reporting on the Booknet Canada report on at least 3 blogs (for example, here and here and here, but nobody seems quite sure what to make of it. We’re selling lots and lots of devices here in Canada, aren’t we? We’re Kobo’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/ted-heller-comes-out-without-a-jacket/feed/ 0 On my honeymoon, I fell in love all over again… with my e-reader (and my wife, of course) http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 19:30:18 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=84304 I hope you’ll pardon me as I jog my ocean air- and sun-addled brain back into something resembling normal functioning with a story from my just-ended honeymoon. On Saturday, my newly minted wife and I got back from Tulum, Mexico, where we spent a week on the beach relaxing and—if we’re being completely honest—recovering from [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/feed/ 0 Kobo Introducing High-End E Ink Reader, the Aura HD. But Why? http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/kobo-introducing-high-end-e-ink-reader-the-aura-hd-but-why/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/kobo-introducing-high-end-e-ink-reader-the-aura-hd-but-why/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:15:09 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=83313 Honestly, I’ve got mixed feelings about Kobo’s announcement of their new e-reader. On the one hand, I’m glad to see someone releasing a high-end E Ink reader. The specs on this one look good, with a pixel resolution that is better even than the Kindle Paperwhite. Lots of people on various e-book forums are saying [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/morning-links-are-the-french-preparing-an-e-book-revolution/feed/ 0 Essay: Electronic Devices on Planes: Is the madness nearly over? http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/essay-electronic-devices-on-planes-is-the-madness-nearly-over/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/essay-electronic-devices-on-planes-is-the-madness-nearly-over/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:30:32 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=81787 By Stephen Silver Of the many constant pet peeves associated with modern-day air travel–from inexplicable delays to intrusive security measures to really, really bad food–I think the one that bothers me most is needing to turn off electronic devices during landing and takeoff. This was bad enough years ago, when the flashing of the “turn [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/essay-electronic-devices-on-planes-is-the-madness-nearly-over/feed/ 3 The curious incident of the books on the Kindle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-curious-incident-of-the-books-on-the-kindle/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-curious-incident-of-the-books-on-the-kindle/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:03:53 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=81436   If you had a pile of 300 books in your house waiting to be read, what would you do? Would you go out and buy any more books? I doubt it, even if you could battle your way to the front door. Yet if you’d got 300 books on your Kindle/iPad/other e-reader, would you [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-curious-incident-of-the-books-on-the-kindle/feed/ 1 Check out my first-ever e-book reader! http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/check-out-my-first-ever-ebook-reader/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/check-out-my-first-ever-ebook-reader/#comments Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:26:27 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=81361 I mentioned earlier that it’s been spring cleaning week here. Well, in amongst one of those random boxes of this and that, I unearthed this gem: my first-ever e-book reader! Back when I purchased this puppy for $50 plus shipping off eBay (a fortune!), it was 2005 and I was living in New Zealand for [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/check-out-my-first-ever-ebook-reader/feed/ 10 Morning Links: The best book design we’ve ever seen http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/morning-links-the-best-book-design-weve-ever-seen/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/morning-links-the-best-book-design-weve-ever-seen/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 16:54:15 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=81056 The $13 txtr beagle eReader is Coming Soon, Will Cost the Same as the Kindle (The Digital Reader) Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs E-Book Experiment Explains Why We Use the Internet (Crunchy Roll) Random House accused of ‘predatory’ contracts for new ebook imprint (The Guardian) Like Amazon, Apple wants to create a marketplace for used [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/morning-links-the-best-book-design-weve-ever-seen/feed/ 0 Why are the better e-reading apps only on one platform? http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/why-are-the-better-e-reading-apps-only-on-one-platform/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/why-are-the-better-e-reading-apps-only-on-one-platform/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:45:55 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=80820 E-book stores tend to have their apps on multiple platforms: Kindle, Nook, Kobo, etc. But the discerning e-book reader wants more features than those apps usually provide, so we start looking for third-party apps. And then we run into an issue. Think about some of the better-regarded e-reading apps. Many of them are only on [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/morning-links-28/feed/ 0 Five Useful ‘Cloud Syncable’ Apps for E-Book Fans http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/five-useful-cloud-syncable-apps-for-ebook-fans/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/five-useful-cloud-syncable-apps-for-ebook-fans/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:43:40 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=80389 I started reading e-books back in the stones ages of plain text Gutenberg files on a handheld Palm device. My, how times have changed! Now, we can read on phones or tablets, in full glorious color—or on battery-efficient E Ink devices—books with sophisticated layouts and embedded multimedia. But those sorts of bells and whistles pale in [...]

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