Amazon has just introduced the long-awaited third version of Digital Book. To promote this type of distribution in education and online press, the Kindle DX does not seem to convince the whole world.

While the successive models of electronic readers succeed without really hoped to be successful, Amazon has just introduced the third version of e-book, the Kindle DX designed to make us forget the flaws of previous and provide a more comfortable reading. The prestigious university Paca in Manhattan was chosen for a first demonstration orchestrated by Jeff Bezos himself, founder and boss of Amazon. Read the rest of this entry »

Seven millimeters thick, big as a sheet of paper and looking like a notebook drive this amazing document, submitted by Plastic Logic, displays text, charts or PowerPoint presentations on a plastic screen. In short, it is an electronic book, but dedicated to the business world. This destination and its large display, thin and sensitive, clearly distinct from the current models.

At the conference DemoFall 08, San Diego, the company Plastic Logic has seemingly caused a sensation with a new model of electronic book (e-paper for some), which can be compared to the Sony Reader, the Cybook of Booken, the Microsoft Reader and the Amazon Kindle. They share a screen made of “electronic ink”, presenting a good contrast (black and white) and do not require energy to keep the information visible. Reading a text is comfortable and the text all the rest you want. Read the rest of this entry »

It is here! Taking into account that the readings become digital with demand, Google Books becomes mobile with a version of its site, and largely optimized for playback on mobile platforms, such as Blackberry or iPhone or Android obviously.

The engine crying out loud, they are now 1.5 million pounds that can be put in his pocket, because sometimes “it aspires to something more than simple video game or a movie,” anticipates Google. And indeed according to our first tests with a Archos 5, equipped with a 3G chip SFR, the interface is more convenient to use and very fast. Read the rest of this entry »

There are in France more than 58 million mobile subscribers since late 2008, and almost a million fans of the key 3G. For telephony, this represents 4.9% growth over the year, however, a decrease with respect to 7.1% in 2007.

But the market is beginning to be saturated with more than 90% of penetration. But finally, we find that the couple phone + package has so many attractions, particularly as it allows to get a new toy and more secure communications. For the 4th quarter, there were 1.6 million subscriptions, when the first three ranged between 304,000 (2nd qtr.) And 389,000 (3rd Qtr.).

Who still doubt the value represented by this formula, proposing a device for cheap - or too, say - in exchange for an offer of subscription to a service in the space of a year. If yesterday, Read the rest of this entry »

The electronic book is slowly becoming a reality, but is of concern in many quarters, and especially calls for a reflection on the meaning and future of the book in general. Lucio Felici, a leading figure in the history of publishing for twenty years director of editorial Garzanti and later editorial director of the joints and Newton & Compton, is asked whether and how the e-book will change not only the publishing, but also how to write. To discover that the electronic book is a challenge to which not even a publisher “traditional” can not resist.

Professor, do you think that e-book will compete with economic issues?

The electronic book can compete with the so-called great works, works of reference such as Read the rest of this entry »

In the U.S., most companies involved in electronic publishing did not come from direct experience of publishing online but the industry has become a kind of new Klondike. Who are these publishers? In a dimension in which the object does not exist as a book can be a difference between producer-retailer and distributor of a book?
 
 Amazon, Barnes & nobles, InternetBookshop, all major online book retailers, have opened the sections devoted to e-book, which mostly sells products made by themselves. But there are only large libraries, there are also large software house that produces programs to read and display the new digital books. At the time, in fact, there is still a standard display and shared many companies are fighting for supremacy in the field. They, too, mostly thought to promote the best standards had become publishers in all respects. Read the rest of this entry »

In general, the term e-book (electronic book) is a literary monograph published in digital form and available through special devices. Note that the adjective ‘literary’, in this definition, in the universal sense of intelligence work as a verbal text, and does not relate exclusively to literary works as aesthetic objects (novel, poem, dramatic text) separated texts from fiction, science and so on. The determination of ‘monographs’ a different e-book itself from the electronic version of a periodical publication, to indicate which one tends to adopt the term e-journal (electronic magazine). The use of generic e-publication (electronic publication) was suggested to refer to any kind of works published in digital format. Read the rest of this entry »

In 1999 the United States the book on paper was the best-selling item over the Internet. With a market share of 11 per cent of total e-commerce, the books have exceeded even the computer programs (10 percent) and music (8.7 percent). So far, therefore, not only the traditional volumes were not replaced by new digital media, but rather information technology have contributed to their spread. But what can still take the book of paper? Will in the end, supplanted by the e-book? Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the entrepreneur who made fortune with the paper books, it is certain that the advance of electronic ones will be unstoppable, “is no longer a question of if but of when the e-books and then ‘download’ you say. ” If the forecast Bezos seems almost obvious, the questions on the theoretical and practical consequences of the development of e-book as a tool of learning that is fun is, however, still open.

The question of questions is whether the new media technology can influence not only the use but also the production of the text, and even the development of meaning. In other words, when read predominantly by digital write differently? It is natural that, faced with such a very complex, scholars are divided: some are skeptical that the digital format can produce a “genetic mutation” on the structures of language and thought, for others, however, will change everything. Read the rest of this entry »

MaxIT Publishing, Inc. believes that the growth of the educational market for electronic and printed books presents many opportunities for authors, publishers, educators, administrators, students, parents, librarians, and other interested parties. The advent of the internet in the educational publishing field, and the melding of traditional and new publishing and marketing techniques, create numerous benefits and advantages for all concerned without a single detriment. Read the rest of this entry »