Still without power and may be in this condition for the rest of the week. It's interesting how WiFi is of little help in this situation. The local Starbucks, and other WiFi hotspots, are jammed and one simply can't get in. The local library is also packed and the WiFi is completely overloaded. No help there.Aside from the lack of power, I'm on a well so I have no water, as well as no heat. Of course, recharging my laptops, or this 3g iPad and my phone, is problematical. I just was able to find a small...

I'm caught in the major New Jersey power outage which resulted from Saturday's snowstorm.  Power has been out since Saturday afternoon and no projections as to when it will be restored. Postings will probably be limited until the problem is cured....

Sitting here in New Jersey, 40 miles due west of New York City, on a couple of acres of ground with a lot of trees and nature stuff, I've brought in my summer outdoor plants, secured the barbeque, filled the washing machine and bathtub with water, and done all sorts of other arcane things to prepare.  But I never thought about the horror of this, as pointed out by The Borowitz Reoprt: As Hurricane Irene prepared to batter the East Coast of the United States, federal disaster officials warned that Internet outages caused by the storm could force people to...

Hello, I'm back.  Many thanks to Chris Walters for taking the laboring oar while I was away.  And where was I while I was away?  I was traveling cross country on my BMW K1200LTC.  It's something I've always wanted to do and I figured that I better do it soon, because I'm getting to the age when you can't count on things remaining status quo. I covered 7,473 miles on the trip to San Francisco and back.  I started here in New Jersey, went down the Skyline Drive and part of the Blue Ridge Parkway and then cut north.  I had...

You won't be seeing too much of me here for the next 4 to 6 weeks.  I will return to regular posting after that time. In the meantime, we've arranged for Chris Walters to take over the daily posting duties, along with Chris Meadows of course.  Chris Walters runs the excellent BookSprung blog and we have regularly picked up Chris' posts. Welcome Chris, and I'll see all of you in a month or so. If you follow the site on Twitter, just keep doing so.  All postings will continue to be tweeted under the current @paulkbiba user name....

I know how TeleRead's readers feel about privacy so I've asked our owners, North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), to provide a detailed explanation of how our new commenting system will work.  One important take-away is that you can still participate in comments but bypass the new system if you post your comment as a Guest.  Here's what they say: You likely have noticed a new share toolbar, social sign-on functionality and commenting system we are testing. It is done through a company called Gigya, which powers many websites such as Reuters, USA Today and CBS.com. We have implemented the new website social...

Finally got ahold of an iPad 2 - 16G, AT&T 3G model.  Compared to my original iPad it is a huge improvement and I think it was well worth spending the money. Here are some of my thoughts on the unit: I got the AT&T version because I have a Verizon iPhone and can tether the iPad to that.  If I can't get Verizon service I can then fire up the AT&T 3G and so I will always have coverage.  And vice versa, of course.  It is not easy to find wifi in my town and so 3G is a necessity...

Booked! Libraries, eBooks and Their Collections!, by Tony Bandy Eminem royalty ruling has broader implications for digital media sales, by Chris Meadows Publishing industry efforts for Japan relief Browser extension allows scribbling in margins of e-books, by Chris Meadows Book reviews & reviewers: deciding which reviews to trust, by Rich Adin Where U.S. ebook buyers live – a statistical analysis, by Mark Coker Kindlefish – free Google Translate web tool optimized for the Kindle, by Andrys Basten All 10 volumes of Voltaire’s Phil. Dict. (English trans.) digitized – check out Free Literature.org Agent warns publishers over digital royalty rates NOAA’s National Weather Service releases three new digital collections...

Why Penguin and Diane Duane just lost a sale, by Chris Meadows Flip book publisher joins the digital age The annual ebook spring cleaning: what I learned this year, by Joanna Georgia (US) history ebook project, by Gary Price Publishers in danger of losing hearts and minds of readers, by Chris Meadows Widescreen TVs, black bars, and e-books: Why complications can cause consumer conniptions, by Chris Meadows Publisher eStar Books responds to our requests for publisher input Reports on the changing bodies of books, by Matthew Hayler It’s like making sausage: if only ebook pricing were an intuitively obvious task, by Mary Anna Evans Memidex...

Why some ebooks cost more than the hardcover Using Ibis Reader and Apple’s VoiceOver Windows/iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Nook Reader, by Chris Meadows How I went from traditional to ebook publishing (and started selling again), by Jason Davis Mike Shatzkin on ebooks and the history of mass-market publishing Ongoing publisher inattention to e-book quality is highly annoying, by Chris Meadows The real problem with piracy: it’s not just one problem!, by Joanna The Pareto Principle and the true cunning of HarperCollins, by Eric Hellman Helping bookstores remain relevant, by Joe Wikert How Amazon did page numbers for the Kindle How mobile phones can extend our daily reading experience, by Piotr...

A purely subjective selection of my favorite posts: Interview with founder of Argentinian ebook site Liibook Librarians apply HarperCollins’ 26-read lending limit to HarperCollins’ own paper books An afternoon in the life of a teacher’s iPad, by Joanna Well done, HarperCollins: librarians must change old thinking, by Martin Taylor More raids in price-fixing probe. Publishers “explain” high ebook pricing, by Andrys Basten Nietzsche and the downfall of big publishing, by Mark Coker Web/iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Ibis Reader, by Chris Meadows FutureBook awards shortlist announced Sarah Houghton-Jan and Andy Woodworth, authors of the Ebook Bill of Rights, interviewed, by Gary Price The economics of self-publishing an ebook, by Eoin...

Last Thursday evening I was stricken with some sort of flu and literally slept almost all the time from then 'till Sunday afternoon. I'm gradually getting my strength back so you should see regular posting resume fairly soon. Paul...