EnGadget notes that Fusion Garage has missed its latest projected ship date of “by the end of February” for the JooJoo (nee CrunchPad) and now claims it will have a shipping update “by the first week in March.” When asked about possible production delays, Fusion Garage responded, “No comment.” Publishing Perspectives provides some clarification from a Nintendo executive on the rationale behind the 100 public domain e-books cartridge we reported on the other day. “It’s not really about trying to take on the e-book market,” said Cammie Dunaway, Nintendo’s executive vp of sales and...

Engadget has a comment thread asking the question, “How would you change Barnes & Noble’s Nook?” It has received 103 comments as of the time I am posting this. Crain’s New York Business has yet another article about the recent publishers-vs-Amazon event. For the most part, it covers what we already know, but it has some interesting quotes. “What we see in the data is that as you go higher than $10, sales decrease quite rapidly,” says Michael Tamblyn, vice president of sales at e-bookstore Kobo. “It's going to be an interesting challenge...

TechCrunch’s M.G. Siegler reports that 27,000 of the 150,000 apps in the app store are e-book-related, and 92% of those are paid applications. Siegler thinks this is good news for the iPad’s eBooks, since it suggests a willingness to pay for e-book even to read on “higher eyestrain” LCD screens. A few days ago, Engadget reported on a planned new e-ink reader from Yinlips. Details were very sparse apart from “that it supports a wide array of file formats, supposedly gets around 20 hours of battery life, and that it's got an FM radio with recording functions." ...

A few iPad quick-links: Remember how McGraw-Hill’s CEO blithely leaked about his company’s involvement with the iPad last night? Insiders tell VentureBeat that as a result, any mention of his company was entirely dropped from the iPad’s launch today. If true, not a great surprise. You don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind, you don’t pull the mask off the old Lone Ranger, and you don’t leak on a Steve Jobs launch presentation. And speaking of Jobs’s launch presentation, Engadget reports that you can now watch it streamed in its entirety. Granted, it has been pretty much “spoiled”...