By Roger Tagholm LONDON: There were some choice phrases on offer at the World e-Reading Congress, held in London this week. “Apple is a walled garden; Android is an open garden – but it has a lot of weeds in it,” was one, from Richard Stephenson, CEO of Yudu Media, the free library of digital content, discussing the relative benefits of …
Google Introduces Payment System for Digital Content
By Hannah Johnson On Wednesday, Google launched its new online payment system for digital content called One Pass. The system allows publishers to sell their digital content using Google Checkout e-commerce solution, and users can access their purchased content from any device. Google will take 10% of each transaction. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that while One Pass is primarily …
Android Becomes Top Smartphone Platform Worldwide
By Hannah Johnson Often, publishers and content creators develop for Apple devices first, and then think about expanding development to the Android, Blackberry and other mobile platforms. However, a new report from tech industry analysis firm Canalys shows that Android and Nokia’s Symbian platforms have shipped more devices worldwide. In 2011, as competition heats up in the mobile sphere both …
France’s Feedbooks: Three Million E-books Served Monthly
Olivia Snaije PARIS: Though just 27 years old, Hadrien Gardeur is a veteran of the war to win e-book readers. Gardeur co-founded his company Feedbooks -– a cloud publishing and distribution service for e-books -– during the summer of 2007 when he was in his last year of computer science engineering school. Three and a half years later, Feedbooks distributes …
Friends, Romans, Librarians: Lend Me Your E-books (Part 2)
Yesterday, in Part 1, Erik Christopher looked at the e-book models offered to librarians by the United States’ two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Today, he considers the model offered by Overdrive and the future of lending as seen by the Open Book Alliance’s Peter Brantley. By Erik Christopher Despite the user-friendly devices and what they can …
Enhanced E-books 5X More Popular than Conventional E-books, says Germany’s Textunes
• Germany’s textunes reports that sales of its enhanced e-books have surpassed conventional e-books • Managing Director Simon Seeger credits the iPad with some of this growth By Siobhan O’Leary Berlin-based textunes announced last week that downloads of its e-books have doubled to the one million mark in the past six months, with enhanced e-books emerging as the most popular …
App Downloads Explode: 755m in Germany, 3.9bn Worldwide in Q1 & Q2
By Siobhan O’Leary Germans love their apps now more than ever. Based on data provided by the market research institute research2guidance, BITKOM [the German Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media] estimates that German mobile phone users will have downloaded 755 million apps by the end of 2010 — that’s a 78% increase over last year. In the first …
Are You Developing for Android?
By Hannah Johnson Publishers, now that you have all mastered the iBook format and created e-book and apps for Kindle, iPhone, iPad and Blackberry, it’s time to tackle the next rising star of the mobile world: Android. Ok, yes, Android has been around since last year, but only recently has it taken off in the United States. With Android’s open-source …
Kindle Gets Games, Android Outsells iPhone in USA
By Hannah Johnson Another day, another Tech Digest: Games Come to the Kindle One of the arguments against electronic reading is that the potential for distraction is high. Well brace yourselves for more distraction. Amazon has released two word games for the Kindle — Shuffled Row and Every Word — for the Kindle DX and Kindle 2. The games were …
Rebtel Provides Cheap International Calling on Android Phones
by Helen Gregg Rebtel, a mobile Voice over IP (VoIP) provider, expanded its presence in the mobile markertplace today with the release of a new Anroid app, reported TechCrunch. Rebtel provides cheap international calls by assigning foreign numbers a local number, and the customer only incurs the cost of a local call. Founded in Sweden in 2006, the company currently …
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