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Weekend Roundup: 3 Essential Books You Should Read in Every Major Genre

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:44:43 +0000

How Google Will Use Balloons to Deliver Internet to the Hinterlands (Wired) Not much happens in Geraldine, a small farming community in the interior of the South Island of New Zealand, about 85 miles from Christchurch. So when Hayden MacKenzie, a fourth-generation farmer there, picked up the phone last Tuesday and got a request to [...]

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Morning Roundup: 6 Cool Things Bookstores Do

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:00:48 +0000

6 Cool Things Bookstores Do in Addition to Selling Books (Book Riot) Bookstores sell books. We’re all clear on that, right? But lots of stores — the smart ones — are going beyond just selling books to their customers. They’ve branched out into services, experiences, and other intangibles, and they’ve done it without abandoning their fundamental [...]

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App review: Putting SwiftKey through the paces with a timed test

Juli Monroe — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:21:32 +0000

I’d thought that Swype was a pretty good keyboard replacement, and I still think so. Unfortunately, it’s not compatible with the Nook HD, so someone recommended I look at SwiftKey. My first impression wasn’t positive. It’s not nearly as good at swipe entry as Swype, and I’d gotten used to swiping. Beside, it looks totally [...]

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Is Media Becoming Too Device-Dependent?

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 17:12:33 +0000

A great write-up at Media Shift asks an important question: Is media becoming too device-dependent? Speaking of the surge in Hearst Media subscriptions following the launch of the purse-sized iPad mini, they concede that “new formats drive new business models,” and while this is not necessarily a bad thing, they also admit that retooling is [...]

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Morning Roundup: Digital magazine advertising to hit $3.8B by 2017

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 13:00:51 +0000

Digital Magazine Advertising to hit 3.8 billion by 2017 (Good e-Reader) Magazine companies have been one of the most successful segments of publishing to take advantage of the digital space. Very early on they have been able to leverage their strong brands across a wide spectrum, including paywalls, dedicated apps, and inclusion into Zinio. Advertisers [...]

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Coming Soon: Google Play for Education

Joanna Cabot — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 18:30:36 +0000

From The Digital Shift comes the intriguing news that Google’s app store is launching an education portal in a bid to gain traction in the schools. With Google Play for Education, coming this fall, schools will be able to purchase educational apps using money orders and other alternative methods, to push them to Nexus tablets in [...]

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B&N Removes Nook for PC and Nook for Mac Apps

Juli Monroe — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:00:31 +0000

David Rothman tipped me to this one. The Ebook Reader is reporting that the Nook for PC and Mac download links have been removed from the “Nook Mobile Apps” page. I just checked, and yes, they really are gone. The only PC-based Nook app currently available on that page is the Windows 8 version, which [...]

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Top 5 Apps for Writers

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 30 May 2013 14:15:41 +0000

From MediaShift comes a roundup titled “The Top 5 Apps for Authors.” Such things are inherently subjective; of the five mentioned (bit.ly, Feedly, Scrivener, Tweetdeck/Hootsuite and Tweetwall) there is only one I personally use. And of course, there are apps I use often that this article fails to mention… So, what apps would I recommend? [...]

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Why Yahoo’s Flickr Expansion Might be Too Late

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:30:35 +0000

Lifehacker has a great analysis of why Yahoo’s recent Flickr tweaking is a little but underhanded—paid users, who never had a storage limit in the first place, suddenly do, and there are ads now… Briefly mentioned, but not fully explored, is the bigger issue: How many of us really care about the service Flickr offers these [...]

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App Review: Wunderlist for task management

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:23:53 +0000

As soon as I published the post about Astrid being bought by Yahoo and mentioned I was looking for a new app, my in-box started chiming with suggestions. Wunderlist was one of the more interesting ones, and I’ve been checking it out this week. It has some interesting features that make it worth downloading. It’s usable across multiple devices. [...]

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Review: Voice Dream Reader e-reading app

David Rothman — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:49:23 +0000

Note: An update of this post on LibraryCity.org focuses on education-related issues of read-aloud apps. A Catch-22 dogs those of us who most often read e-books visually but also want to hear them when we’re exercising or driving. The usual e-bookware doesn’t always come with or work with text to speech capabilities. Even if it does, we can’t control [...]

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7 Must-Have Apps For Your New Nook HD

Juli Monroe — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:43:24 +0000

If you’ve taken advantage of the great sale on the Nook HD (ending today), or if you’ve had one for awhile and recently upgraded to add the Google Play Store, you might be wondering what apps to add. Here’s my list of must-have apps, not available in the Nook App store. 1. Feedly With Google [...]

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Penguin Turns “The Pocket Scavenger” Into an Interactive Creativity App

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:44:20 +0000

Until I opened an email this morning from a publicist at the Penguin Group (USA), who’d sent me a press release about the company’s newest so-called “creativity app,” The Pocket Scavenger, I was under the impression that I was at least somewhat tuned in to the world of Android apps. But apparently, not so much. Penguin, it [...]

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Nook HD as an Android Tablet Contender: Part 2 — Nook HD vs. Nexus 7

Juli Monroe — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:24:33 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote about the Nook HD mostly from a stock OS perspective. But I know the question you really wanted to have answered was this: “Does it work as an Android tablet?” After three days of using it, my answer is a cautious “yes.” Because I still don’t have a tablet case for it, [...]

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B&N Decides to Play Nice With Google Play

Juli Monroe — Fri, 03 May 2013 18:10:46 +0000

All right! Barnes & Noble has finally listened to its customer base, and the tech bloggers. They recently announced that they’ll be rolling out a software update that adds the Google Play Store to the Nook HD and HD+ tablets. This is excellent news. The Nook HD tablets have consistently received great hardware reviews, but [...]

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