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Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Steve Jobs won’t likely ever be relegated to a footnote in history, and it looks like Apple won’t be writing the book on the future of textbooks, either. On Wednesday Amazon.com essentially rewrote the playbook on textbooks with the introduction of “Whispercast for Kindle,” which could give schools and businesses a simple, scalable online tool for deploying Kindle devices and Kindle content. The technology, from the world’s...
eLife, the new open-access journal for outstanding scientific advancements, has published its first four research articles. CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- First announced in summer 2011, eLife is a researcher-led initiative for the best in science and science communication. Backed by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society, and the Wellcome Trust, the initiative's first aim is to launch an open-access journal for outstanding advances...
SANTA ROSA BEACH, Fla., Oct. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- To stand out from the crowd as a new author is not an easy undertaking but that is exactly what Alessandra Torre has done with her first erotic novel--Blindfolded Innocence. Reader frenzy, created solely by word of mouth, has catapulted this novel into a meteoric rise of success. A testament to Torre's success are the thousands of copies sold daily as a Kindle bestseller, carving out her own following behind the popular...
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Works with iOS, Android, and Windows XP/7 PCs A differentiated e-reading experience with interactive features Publishers able to produce premium e-books easier than ever before INFRAWARE, a leading mobile solution and application developer, announced today that it will exhibit Palaoo, the first ePub 3.0 e-book service for multiple OSs, at Frankfurt Book Fair 2012. Palaoo, an ePub 3.0 e-reader developed based on advanced...
TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kobo, a leader in eReading with more than 10 million users worldwide, today announced new partnerships with Booksellers NZ and The Paper Plus Group. Kobo, already partnered with leading book chain Whitcoulls, is now powering the majority of New Zealand booksellers with its world-class eReading platform. "Kobo is committed to helping booksellers of all sizes join the eReading revolution," said Todd Humphrey, EVP of Business Development, Kobo....
TORONTO, Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kobo, Inc., a global powerhouse in eReading with over 10 million users in 190 countries, and Aquafadas a leading digital publishing technology company, today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Kobo intends to acquire Aquafadas. The global eReading market is exploding and with the acquisition of the Aquafadas Digital Publishing System, Kobo will be able to bring a selection of rich media - magazines, academic,...
LONDON, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Online publishing pioneer YUDU Media today announced the launch of its new YUDU Education, the first digital textbook publishing platform that enables educational publishers to seamlessly digitize, optimize and deliver multimedia textbooks for ubiquitous access on tablet, laptop and desktop computer. With YUDU Education, publishers can quickly and easily create rich, engaging digital textbooks that students can access on iPad, Android and...
FRANKFURT, Germany, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BookShout!, the Dallas-based social e-reading platform, announced today at the Frankfurt Book Fair a revolutionary new disruptive technology that, for the first time ever, enables users to legally import and aggregate all of their previous and future digital book purchases from any source - starting with Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook - into the social/e-reading platform BookShout! at no cost. Before today, consumers...
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment, today released an upgrade to its popular Axis 360 digital media platform. New options allow library patrons to check out ebooks on ereaders compatible with EPUB and PDF formats, such as NOOK, Sony Reader and Kobo devices. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121005/CL86408LOGO ) With Axis 360, library patrons can now use...
Enid Burns for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The previously announced subsidiary started by Microsoft and Barnes & Noble finally has a name and a business model. This week, the two companies announced NOOK Media, a subsidiary that includes Barnes & Noble's NOOK Digital and College Business as well as Microsoft Investment to Advance Digital Reading Experience. A preliminary announcement on the partnership was made in April, when Microsoft made an investment of $300...
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The Cybook Opus is an e-book reader produced by Bookeen from France, released on July 27, 2009. The operating system for the Opus is Linux with an open source firmware. In June 2010, Bookeen published and improved firmware with a one-second mode which allows the device to be turned on and off in one second. It also keeps the last page read open and the user does not have to reboot each time. There is no keyboard and it does not have a dictionary or bookmarks. There is no internet access...
The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
The Kobo Touch is an eReader device produced by Kobo Inc., from China, revealed on May 23, 2011, and released in the U.S. on June 10, 2011. It is the third generation eReader from Kobo, and contained improvements from the previous versions. The Kobo Touch included 15 free previews of select books instead of 100 public domain books that were included on the previous versions. Other improvements were an E Ink pearl screen, faster CPU, and it was smaller and lighter. The display is a six-inch...
The Nook is a brand of e-reader developed by Barnes & Noble with the original device released in November 2009. It featured both Wi-Fi and AT&T 3G, with a 6 inch display and a smaller touchscreen for data input. Since then there has been multiple versions and upgrades. A Wi-Fi only version released in June 2010 and the Nook color using LCD in November 2010. The second generation Nook was released in June 2011, and in February 2012 an upgrade was released to the Wi-Fi only version....
The Colombian Journal of Statistics (Revista Colombiana de Estadistica) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal on statistics published biannually by the National University of Colombia. It was established in 1968. During its early years, the journal was published only in Spanish; since 1985, it includes English-published papers as well. The journal halted publication in 1969, being re-launched in 1979 by Luis Thorin. The journal covers research on statistics, including applications,...
