• KoBo eReader One of the Cheapest Yet Produced

    KoBo eReader One of the Cheapest Yet Produced

    The Kobo eReader is like reading a traditional book. E Ink technology makes it look just like print on paper. You can adjust the type to five different sizes and two different styles. The screen is sharp and glare free, making reading easy on the eyes. Want to Expand Your Library? Just [...]

  • JooJoo Tablet Beats Apple to Market

    JooJoo Tablet Beats Apple to Market

    The JooJoo tablet is now shipping! After a few false starts, all those fortunate enough to have pre-ordered and didn’t cancel after the delays will have their shiny new device in their hands shortly. At $499 it’s keenly priced for a device in this new market. No word about UK pricing or availability yet, but [...]

  • New eReader from ASUS

    New eReader from ASUS

    After weeks of hearing about the DR-900 (or DR-950) e-reader, you had to know that we’d sprint (okay, walk at a brisk pace) over to ASUS’ booth to finally handle the touchscreen device in person. The 9-inch ebook reader was quite light in hand, and though we didn’t have Amazon’s Kindle DX with us, it [...]

  • Magic Wand Scanner

    Magic Wand Scanner

    This compact battery powered magic one scanner from VuPoint allows you to scan pretty much any document without the need to be connected to a PC. Capable of scanning a A4 page up to 600 x 600 dpi in around 28 seconds and a low resolution scan in black-and-white in less than four seconds.
    The VuPoint [...]

  • Amazon and Macmillan Fight Over eBook Rights

    Amazon and Macmillan Fight Over eBook Rights

    The publishing world is continuing to assess the fall-out from the ongoing dispute between Amazon.com and Macmillan US over e-book prices. While the media has generally perceived Amazon.com’s “capitulation” as a victory for “old media”, others have suggested that Amazon will be the ultimate winner from the fracas.
    Negotiations between Amazon.com and Macmillan are reported to [...]

  • iPad Cometh!

    iPad Cometh!

    The long rumored (and we mean long rumored) Apple tablet has finally arrived. Is the iPad as “magical” as the company hopes? Perhaps not, but there is a lot to this story beyond the obvious: A4 chip? Micro SIM? What’s the deal with Flash? Since we know you’re looking for the straight dope on the [...]

  • Laptop Friendly Cafes

    Laptop Friendly Cafes

    If you have manage to escape from your home office for a short time, but still need to carry on working, finding a Wi-Fi hotspot is still an issue. I came across this website today that looks fantastic and is perfect for road warriors, or coffee addicts that still need to get online. The site [...]

  • Zino Launches iPhone App

    Zino Launches iPhone App

    Zinio, the world’s leader in digital publishing, technology, distribution and services, today announced the launch of its iPhone app (zinio.com/iphone) as the cornerstone of its ubiquitous “Unity” reading platform. Currently offering its digital content to be read on PC, Mac, netbook, touch-screen and tablet devices, Zinio now adds another reading access point to its multi-platform-enabled [...]

  • Mag+ Concept The Future of Magazine Design

    Mag+ Concept The Future of Magazine Design

    Magazines have articles you can curl up with and lose yourself in, and luscious photography that draws the eye. And they’re so easy and enjoyable to read. Can we marry what’s best about magazines with the always connected, portable tablet e-readers sure to arrive in 2010?
    This video prototype shows the take of the Mag+ project.

    Mag+ [...]

  • Publish Now! Issue 1 Out Now

    Publish Now! Issue 1 Out Now

    After several long months of hard work my latest publishing venture arrived this morning. Publish Now! will be available from most branches of WH Smith here in the UK and abroad. If you have problems locating a copy, you can order direct from me. Look to your right to see how you can place your [...]

  • DeskLitter

  • DeskLitter No: 111

    DeskLitter No: 111

    SD Card Accessory for iPhone We offer a range of accessory products and applications for mobile and portable devices. Initial products include zoomIt for iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The zoomIt accessory and application enables Apple mobile device users

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  • DeskLitter No: 108

    DeskLitter No: 108

    Key(board) Desk Brush Hands up who eats biscuits at your desk? Yep me too. This solution has got to be one of the best ideas I’ve seen in ages. If you regularly lunch at your desk you will know how annoying Hula

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  • DeskLitter No: 109

    DeskLitter No: 109

    Ceramic Notepad Leave messages for your friends and loved ones with this dry-wipe ceramic memo post card. Measures 180 x 125 x 25 mm. Comes with a dry wipe pen. Table top or wall mounted (fittings not supplied). A great idea

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  • eBooks

  • New eBook Store Opens in UK

    New eBook Store Opens in UK

    Electronic bookstore, Kobo (previously known as Shortcovers) launches in the UK this week, billing itself as an all-in-one electronic reading service for PCs, laptops, netbooks, tablets and smartphones. Kobo uses the e-publishing industry’s open standards such as EPUB and offers a

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  • New Samsung eReaders

    New Samsung eReaders

    We were fortunate enough to get a quick moment with Samsung’s new assortment of e-readers back at CES, but the cool kids over at Notebook Italia were able to get the E6, E101 and E61 on video. There’s little doubt

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  • Possible Google User Interface Concepts Revealed

    Possible Google User Interface Concepts Revealed

    Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS is being developed with the burgeoning budget netbook market in mind, although the search giant is also developing a version of the operating system for tablet or slate PCs. Google has shared a little more information on

    Feb 02, 2010 | 0 comments | View Post

  • ePublishing

  • Cheapest eReader yet?

    Cheapest eReader yet?

    The Kobo eReader is like reading a traditional book. E Ink technology makes it look just like print on paper. You can adjust the type to five different sizes and two different styles. The screen is

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  • Would You Pay to Read Online Newspapers?

    Would You Pay to Read Online Newspapers?

    The Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Does journalism exist? Thank you for inviting me to give this lecture in honour of the memory of Hugh Cudlipp. Ask any British journalist who were their editor-heroes over the last 30 or 40 years and two names

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  • Beginner's Guide to ePublishing

    Beginner’s Guide to ePublishing

    What is ePublishing? ePublishing – or Electronic Publishing – is a more recent way in which books, short stories, collections and works of non-fiction can be distributed via the Internet and computers in general. The basic premise of ePublishing is that the

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  • iPad

  • Conde Nast Stakes Claim on iPad

    Conde Nast Stakes Claim on iPad

    The first magazines for which it will create iPad versions are Wired, GQ, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Glamour, the company plans to announce in an internal memorandum on Monday. GQ will have a tablet version of its April

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  • Is the IPad Publishing’s Savior? Pro and Con

    This week’s iPad launch brought publishing’s future back to many media minds; we asked two agency thinkers to argue the pros and cons of the device’s potential for reviving a sagging industry. Arguing pro is Hill Holiday’s Greg Winter; con

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  • Is Publishing About to Have an iPod Moment?

    Is Publishing About to Have an iPod Moment?

    Think back a decade to the year 2000 – and the state of the music industry then. The first MP3 players were already on sale, but were only in the hands of early-adopting gadget fans. The music industry was selling

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