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65eBooks in Schools
The Stamford Advocate has a great piece about eBooks in schools; specifically about a test program using Sony eBooks at the Bi-Cultural Day School. Instead of lugging a huge back pack of books these students have one small book loaded with all of...
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56The oddest publishing news of the week
Yesterday, Simon & Schuster's children's publishing division acknowledged that they will be publishing a manual on the etiquette of orgies and sex clubs by author Francesca Beauman. And here is my personal...
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60Adobe Digital Editions
Finally out of Beta and officially released, Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 has been showing up in a lot of my alerts, blogs and publishing industry news. I downloaded the Beta about three months ago and spent...
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52The Decendants eBook
This book got to me, almost in spite of myself. . . I started it two weeks ago and had a very hard time with the first 100 pages (or so). My mind wandered, I feel asleep, I found something else to do. And...
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45Harry Potter -- my final words
So here are my final words on Harry Potter -- I promise! Scholastic estimated that 8.3 million copies of the 12 million first printing of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold in the U.S. on Saturday. ...
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70Readers are the winners with the new IDPF eBook open standards
This is a first - the first in a series of blog articles written by Gigi's friends, associates and the eBooks About staff. Contributors are welcome -please contact Gigi with ideas, articles and comments! I want your participation! This piece is by...
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56eBooks in the news
The 2nd World eBook Fair eBooks About Everything is a proud commercial sponser of the Word eBook Fair. The fair is the brain child of Michael Hart -- the founder of Project Gutenburg Michael is an eBook pioneer and evangalist. Starting July 4,...
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55Harry Potter insanity
What's the most popular book in the world, viewed from a long-term perspective of, say, the last couple of hundred years? According to Martial Development it's the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Martial Development...
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64eBooks on a Cell Phone
You know you're getting old when you have CSS disease. Evidently your eye sight is the first (or maybe second) thing to go. If you are squinting at the newspaper, frowning over your computer screen or cussing because you can't see the incoming calls...
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50A Room of One's Own (Sorta)
I found this great little piece in The New York Times yesterday - all about the book cave. Now here is a great idea for those who like to curl up with a book (laptop, PDA, or Palm) - your own private space....
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