Lightspeed Illuminati

photo credit: dsearls Unlike most countries in the world, the U.S. has a particular affinity toward excess paper consumption. As a nation that began with vast acres of forest, we have always consumed timber resources with a reckless sense of abandon. The idea that trees are a renewable resource has been used as justification for [...]

Cloud computing has captured the imaginations of computer users with a simple proposition: all of your stuff will always available in the cloud. Independent software vendors have been rolling out solution after solution to take advantage of this twist that adds a new wrinkle to the concept of digital content ownership. Photographs, music, email, banking [...]

  How much should an ebook cost? Is $.99 the perfect price point? Is $12.99 too much? On one side of the argument, you have people who are firmly convinced that since an ebook has no material substance—hence no need for printing, paper, physical distribution, returns, and so on—there is no justification for pricing beyond [...]

The promise of enhanced ebooks has been around since the first text flickered on a computer screen, but this promise has rarely been realized in practice. Most past efforts to create computer-based books with embedded digital media elements have been cumbersome, slow, difficult to navigate, and—all in all—not worth the effort. An entire industry rose [...]

Sun rising in the ebook realm? Are you ready to strike it rich with ebooks? Sorry, you’ve come to the wrong post. The world of pork belly futures and other commodity speculation is best left to those deep-pocketed captains of industry who think they can catch the scent of market trends like a sniffer dog [...]

As of late, the blogosphere has been burning with passionate posts comparing the current crop of e-readers and e-reader capable tablets—particularly the Kindle and iPad, but also the legions of newly introduced devices, such as the NookColor, the Kobo ebook reader, and the WISEreader. The comparisons often bristle with the zealous conviction of judges on [...]