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OMG Harlequin R SRSLY GR8 :-)

March 21, 2008

Harlequin are once more proving how ahead of the game they are in the digital space, compared with other publishers. Dear Author reports that they will be distributing Harlequin manga titles to mobile phones in the Japanese market. Japanese audiences have already shown that they are interested in consuming narrative in text form on their [...]

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Penguin six-pack

March 20, 2008

Penguin UK have launched their much-anticipated We Tell Stories project.   This is a new locative storytelling project produced in collaboration with alternative reality gamers Six to Start. Six Penguin authors will publish new digital stories, inspired by six Penguin classics, over six weeks. The first, launched on Wednesday, is 21 Steps by Charles Cumming, inspired [...]

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Could the iTouch be an e-book reader?

March 17, 2008

My husband loves his iPod Touch. He’s entirely smug about how much more advanced it is than my modest little 2nd generation Nano. And while the blogosphere is musing about whether Steve Jobs was just misdirecting us all when he said Apple had no plans to develop an e-book reader, the iPod Touch may well have been quietly [...]

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Once again, why do I want a device that only reads books?

March 7, 2008

Cory Doctorow has an excellent column at Locus Online about the economic conundrum of e-book readers. Frankly, book reading just isn’t important enough to qualify for priority treatment in that marketplace. E-book readers to date have been either badly made, expensive, out-of-stock or some combination of all three. No one’s making dedicated e-book readers in [...]

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