When we think of the Big Three West Coast tech firms poised to change publishing, we think Amazon, Apple and Google. Between them they embody a shift in discovery, distribution and hardware in reading and typify a move away from the traditional centres of the book world, in favour of more new media-native presences.
Kindle currently [...]
The Third Player
on 10 November, 2009 – 5:21 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices
Cool-er e-reader
on 2 June, 2009 – 11:17 am
Posted in General, Reading devices
Nick sent me a link to the COOL-ER reader, and I have to say I’m impressed. Somehow the launch of a totally new, and if I may say so, totally sexy, device passed me by. This is launching at BEA right now and is available for pre-order in the UK, shipping later this month. [...]
Don’t Write Off Ereaders Just Yet
on 10 March, 2009 – 4:36 pm
Posted in Reading devices
This picture, taken at the R&D labs of the New York Times (featured on the TOC blog), seems to be saying that far from reading devices going away, they are now on an unstoppable trajectory: investment, diversification, rapid innovation, everything is there.
Yet in many ways, other than the blip that was the Kindle 2.0 launch, [...]
Kindle 2: Return of the Design Conscious
on 10 February, 2009 – 10:56 am
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
In hindsight it was always going to happen: we had seen the leaked pictures and the sheer weight of good taste pressuring down on the product development team at Amazon meant that the Kindle would have to get a redesign. But it was still a relief to see that the “retro cool” of the original [...]
