First, what I didn’t buy Kindle Touch for: - tech review, - reading books in my mother tongue – Polish. There are a couple of major reasons why I have ordered Kindle Touch from Poland and had it delivered privately as this model is not available for international shipment. 1. To buy and read books in English I’ve tested Kindle ecosystem since I downloaded Kindle app to my iPhone in April 2009. Long enough to recognize my preferences. I like the fact that books are stored in the cloud and I can get access to them from any device which is at hand. I like...

When I finished the infographic and showed it to my wife, she said: “Forty years? No way. Four, maybe.” “Four, maybe” – it’s what most people think. Most people are still convinced that e-books are a fad. That’s why I was looking for a convenient, all-in-one way to challenge this myth. I hope it works. Every year shows not only the information about e-books, but also other facts and achievements. This builds a good, thought-provoking time reference. Share this infographic if you think it deserves it. I wanted to put it on the web before this year’s edition of Read an E-Book...

Got the following From Rita Toews, founder of Read and E-Book Week: As Read an E-Book Week draws nearer the list of participants grows. This year we have had great interest from Polish sites, thanks in part to an enthusiastic Teleread contributor, Piotr Kowalczyk. An Italian book publisher has queried, and a magazine in Milan did a piece about the week. Win a Nook! That's right, we'll be giving away a Nook during Read an E-Book Week. Visit the website for more details. Free content from this year’s participants includes a children's e-book from Syvlan Dell...

Need Ebook Conversions? Check the Ebook Conversion Services Directory February 10, 2011 [Approximate reading time: 4:07] Questions from readers and clients are where I find out what is causing the most confusion for self-publishers. Lately, one area has dominated the questions I’ve been getting: ebooks. Lots of people have read about the success Joe Konrath and other authors, mostly... Promoting Your Ebook with Online Advertising: Four Options February 16, 2011 We can talk all day about the importance of good writing/editing, good cover art, and good blurbs when it comes to selling ebooks, but obscurity is the toughest...

Editor's Note: TeleRead contributor Piotr Kowalczyk is writing from Poland. PB Everybody is now writing an article using a random combination of words “Google”, “Amazon” and “killer”. I’ll touch something much more important for an e-book reader. I’ll write about “freedom” and “limitations”. First press announcements about Google Editions, in October last year, were talking about a revolutionary product: the one which will free us from all the limitations other e-bookstores are putting. The limitations were: the access, the format, the device. For 14 months I was living with a hope that one day Google comes up with a fix-it-all solution....

Got an email from Przemyslaw Wlodarski about a new social ereading site starting up in Poland. Most of the books on the site are in Polish so far. The site is available in both English and Polish, and there are a couple of English books, but a lot in Polish....

According to the Bookseller, Thalia, Germany's largest bookseller, has launched its own ereader, the Oyo. Thalia has teamed up with Bertelsmann's Direct Group to distribute in France through Chapitre.com and is also working with Dutch bookseller Selexyz and the Polish chain Empik. Sales have gone well, with the unit's pre-orders exceeding expectations, according to Thalia's Managing Director. The unit has WiFi, a touchscreen and 2GB of memory. A 3G version is planned. The Oyo can access a Thalia-designed bookshop that has several hundred thousand German and English original titles. ...

I’ve been invited by the Polish Institute of International Affairs to make a presentation on how new technologies determine the information flow in a publishing industry. It’s a part of the 20th Annual EINIRAS Conference “From Content to Knowledge in International Relations”, which is organized by The Polish Institute of International Affairs. As a dedicated self-publisher being highly motivated to benefit from newest advances of technology, I tried to describe and visualize the processes which change the publishing landscape. You can read the presentation below (best viewed with a full screen option enabled). Topics: • Technology is changing a way information and ideas are...

From the Digital Collections Home Page: National Digital Library Polona presents the most precious and valuable documents from the collection of the National Library. From the Points of Interest Blog from Booklist: …treasures including manuscripts such as Ptolmey’s Cosmographia, the Chopin collection which will eventually include digital versions of all of his manuscripts, the history of Warsaw, archives and periodicals covering World War II in Poland, and a Yiddish literature collection. There are also collections of children’s literature, underground publications from World War II, and serials from the 19th and early 20th century. Historians, musicians, and scholars...

According to The Economist there are about 5m e-readers in circulation worldwide and double that amount will be sold in 2010. Let's compare it to touchscreen phones: 184m sold last year, 97% growth is predicted for 2010 (Gartner). Mobile phone is a music and video player, gaming console or a mobile office, so why not an e-book reader? I'm not talking about one-time chase for a lost symbol. I'm talking about 15-minute read in a found time. If just a tiny 1% of all new touchscreen users will think of reading a book, it's 1,84m people who might need some hints. And...

Polish author Piotr Kowalczyk has found out something very interesting. This is from his English language blog Password Incorrect: I opened last week a little Amazon store at my blog, where I list products which fit my interests. Today I was trying to create a Listmania list with e-reading devices available at Amazon. The thing is that it was not possible to publish it. A terrible line “Sorry! Inappropriate language was used” appeared every time after I pressed a “Publish list” button. Originally I filled with information every field. Then got rid of everything except a title. Checked “eReaders”, “E-book readers”,...