The other day, our point of contact at our parent company NAPCO contacted Paul and me and asked if we would be interested in reviewing a 16-gigabyte iPad NAPCO had received. Paul suggested I should be the one to review it, and you could have knocked me over with a feather when I learned that I would be taking delivery of an iPad early next week. Plans I plan to do a series of review posts, just as I did for the Sony PRS-700 and the Astak 5” Pocket Pro, focusing on different aspects of...

Another one! Monday through Wednesday of next week I'll be in New York covering the NAPCO annual Publishing Business Conference & Expo. This is a bit of a different duck than the others as it has two tracks - books and magazines. There are also going to be some high powered speakers including Steve Forbes. One of the different things about this conference is that I will be a participant. I'll be moderating the panel New Business Models Made Possible With the Advent of E-books, which will be on Tuesday, March 9, at 11:30am. Please come...

TeleRead, the oldest English-language site devoted to general e-book news and views, is now owned by the Gadgetell subsidiary of North American Publishing Company (NAPCO). We closed the deal today. I’m leaving as editor-publisher, but Co-Editor Paul Biba (left photo) will remain---as full editor. What’s more, Senior Writer Chris Meadows (right), the second most frequent contributor, will stay. Both Paul and Chris have been e-book-lovers for eons, and publications ranging from the New York Times to the Guardian have quoted Paul over the years. Under Paul, who has supplied most of TeleRead’s posts since September 2008 and managed it...