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Baker & Taylor Snags More Content for Blio no comments
Baker & Taylor has announced another agreement to provide content to the Blio ereader software. This time the deal is with Quayside Publishing Group.
Quayside Publishing produces graphics-rich non-fiction specialty books. Its imprints include Fair Winds Press, Motorbooks, MVP Books, Quarry Books, Quiver Books , Rockport Publishers, Voyageur Press, Walter Foster Publishing and Zenith Press.
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Toshiba Opening eBook Store no comments
Toshiba is opening an ebook store called Book Place which will be powered by Blio. The site says that the store will be open for business in a “few weeks.” We are told that the Blio ereading ware will become generally available over the next couple of months.
Besides bestsellers, Toshiba promises cookbooks, travel guides, children’s books, textbooks and more. Blio should work very well for richly illustrated books; and 3D content and some multimedia enhancements will be supported as well.
Book Place comes preloaded on new Toshiba laptops and a few free sample ebooks should be included:
- A Thread So Thin – Maria Bostwick (Kensington Publishing Corp.)
- Julia’s Chocolates – Julie Lamb (Kensington Publishing Corp.)
- Organize Now!: A Week-by-Week Guide to Simplify Your Space and Your Life – Jennifer Ford Berry (F+W Media, Inc.)
- History’s Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong – William Weir (Fair Winds Press)
- I Know an Old Teacher – Anne Bowen and Stephen Gammell (Lerner Publishing Group)
- The Web Designer’s Idea Book: The Ultimate Guide To Themes, Trends & Styles In Website Design – Patrick McNeil (F+W Media, Inc.)
- Monster Boy’s Soccer Game, by Carl Emerson and Lon Levin Carl Emerson and Lon Levin (Magic Wagon)
- Knack Grilling Basics – Linda Johnson Larsen (Knack, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press)
- The Everything Kids’ Science Experiments Book: Boil Ice, Float Water, Measure Gravity-Challenge the World Around You! – Tom Robinson (Adams Media)
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eReader News and Links– 6/30/2010 no comments
Color Kindle coming sooner rather than later? Pocket-lint, in a brief article covering a demonstration of Mirasol display tech and the coy comments of a Qualcomm spokesperson does absolutely nothing to dampen hopes that we may see a color Kindle with a Mirasol display by the end of the year. Some nice photos are included as well.
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Copia, which will sell both ebooks and pbooks and will have a strong emphasis on social networking is set to launch in July. The company also has been planning to launch six different ereaders – four with 6-inch and two with 9-inch e-ink displays – with varying feature sets.
Publishers Weekly quotes Copia senior VP Anthony Antolino as saying that Copia has reconfigured its ereader lineup and will be selling a 5-inch color LCD model for $99 and a 10.1-inch touchscreen LCD model for $299. It is not clear from the article if Copia will be completely abandoning its e-ink based devices.
The new ereaders have not yet made an appearance at the Copia website. It really never made much sense to me that Copia would have so many different ereader models, and it makes even less sense now in the current market.
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Baker & Taylor, Inc, which makes claim to being the world’s largest distributer of books both paper and digital, is also one of the powers behind the Blio reader. B & T recently announced that they have entered into an agreement with F+W Media to bring that company’s rich, highly formatted content to Blio.
F+W Media publishes full color, richly illustrated instructional titles for graphic designers, artists, craftsmen, woodworkers and others. Baker & Taylor has announced similar agreements to bring graphics-rich content to Blio from other publishers, including John Wiley & Sons and Elsevier. The latter is a leading publisher of medical, scientific and technical books.
I’m looking forward to having Blio on the iPad; I saw the Blio demo at CES and it was impressive.
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Amazon’s previously announced 70 percent royalty option for its Digital Text Platform (DTP) goes live today. Amazon also announced some feature improvements to make DTP more convenient for authors and publishers: a more intuitive “Bookshelf” feature and a simplified two-step publishing process.
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The New York Times is reporting that Google is close to reaching a deal with the American Booksellers Association which would make Google Editions the main source of ebooks on the websites of most independent booksellers.
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Amazon’s Kindle will be sold at some airports around the US. HMSHost has signed an exclusive deal with Amazon to sell the 6-inch Kindle at its shops in the following airports:
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Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International: Simply Books
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Charlotte Douglas International: Simply Books
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Dallas Ft. Worth International: Simply Books
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George Bush Houston Intercontinental: Simply Books
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Miami International: Simply Books
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Minneapolis-St. Paul International: Simply Books, Authors Bookstore
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LA/Ontario International: Authors Bookstore
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Salt Lake City International: Simply Books
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San Diego International: Authors Bookstore
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Mineta San Jose International: Authors Bookstore
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Tampa International: Authors Bookstore
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Blio Still Incoming – to Wal-Mart? 1 comment
The NYT reports that Ray Kurzweil’s Blio ereading software should be more widely available over the next couple of months. This as PC makers start to
include it on their machines. The article also suggests that Wal-Mart may offer the Blio software on a device of its own.
So will Wal-Mart have its own ereader? Kurzweil won’t elaborate, but he does say that Wal-Mart is “very excited” about something. Recent press releases have indicated that Wal-Mart is enlarging its consumer electronics department and it would not be inconceivable that it may try to develop its own ereader as it tries to take over the electronics section of the retailing world.
The Blio eReader software presents ebooks in the original format – layout, fonts and images are the same as in the original book. Blio is especially suited for graphics-rich books such as cookbooks, travel guides, textbooks, children’s books, etc. Purchased ebooks are permanently stored in a virtual library and can be transferred to your favorite device.
Blio also supports multimedia and includes study tools
such as translation, sticky notes, highlighting and bookmarking. You can even insert voice, image or video notes into your books and these can be exported to create study materials.
The Blio website lists the following as platforms the Blio eReader software will soon be available for:
- Windows and Mac
- Linux
- Android
- Symbian
- Windows Mobile
- iPhone
- Supported ebook formats currently are: XPS, PDF, ePub
I saw Blio at their booth at CES and it was pretty impressive, although I personally don’t like reading ebooks on my desktop or laptop. Blio should be very nice on the iPad and on smartphones though.
