Lightspeed Illuminati

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 [...]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955) On one level, the discussion over the environmental impact of ebooks and ebook readers, as compared to traditional books, is a little like the medieval discussions over how many angels can dance [...]

Blio, Ray Kurzweil’s free software designed to overcome page display shortcomings of other ebook formats, is a dark horse running in a race that’s been going on for some time. Nonetheless, the package shows some competitive promise in the heated market in which Kindle and iPad are setting the pace. Projected to be available to [...]

In stark contrast to high-tech approaches to reading—like the iPad and the Kindle—these residents of Somerset, England came up with their own refreshing low-tech solution: a book exchange hosted in a vintage English phone booth, As reported by Offbeat Earth, villagers line up to swap books they’ve read for books they haven’t. At any one [...]

Traditional book publishers are very nervous—at least as nervous as recording industry executives were nearly a decade ago as Apple’s iTunes burst upon the scene and overturned conventional wisdom about who really controlled sales and distribution of songs. Amazon’s success with the Kindle was a friendly tap on the shoulder for publishing executives. Apple’s iPad [...]