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Michael Hart de uitvinder van het e-boek is op dinsdag 6 september 2011 overleden. Hij was 64 jaar oud. Michael Hart was student aan de Universiteit van Illinois (VS). Toen hij in 1971 op de computerafdeling van de universiteit werkte, kreeg hij vanwege zijn inzet een aantal computeruren toegewezen voor eigen gebruik. Volgens de mythe zou hij na het aanbod naar zijn werkkamer gegaan zijn om over

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A third wave started in 2001, when E-Ink, a development company near Boston (Mass), started to develop a new display technology, which would offer a still screen and a long battery life only page turns would consume energy. By 2006 the first E-Ink based e-readers started to leave the factory. A Philips spin-off Irex Technologies in The Netherlands started to sell the Iliad at a heavy price of

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July 4th is a traditional American holiday, Independence Day. Unique for that day is the 40th anniversary of the e-book. It took e-book from 1971 up to now to become an accepted medium. One can say that the introduction of the Kindle e-reader on November 19, 2007 gave e-book an official status. That is 37 years after its start. What took the e-book four waves to surface? Is it basically culture

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The bankrupt e-reader manufacturer iRex, a spin-off of Philips electronics, based in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) will restructure and be operational again from September 1. From September 1 the company will continue as IRX Innovations. Besides a new name the company will have a smaller scope. It will forego the consumer market and concentrate on the business market. Geographically the company

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Historic mini serie on ereaders and ebooks, starting on July 4, 2006. Read this miniserie on ereaders, ebooks and digital paper. It will tell you about the long struggle for ebooks and ereaders since 1991!

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In The Netherlands the year 2009 will be recorded in the annals as the year that electronic book finally made it in the consumer market. The figures are now official: - 12.000 ereaders sold; - 60.000 ebooks sold; - 5 ebooks per ereader. Of course those figures can hardly compete with the US figures in general and the Amazon figures in particular. In the US during the Christmas season 1 million

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This week it was the last week to order an ereader for the company. I had a perfect working iLiad of the first series, but during one of my presentations on ebooks and ereaders, I handed it around and received it back, broken. The screen was gone. I had had such a failure before and had to pay a hefty 250 euro (I had paid 650 euro for it to buy) to get the screen repaired. To pay another 250 euro

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The year is almost over and looking back I am impressed by the inroads made by ereaders and electronic books. Of course Kindle had made impressive inroads already, but only in the US. And now the fight for market share has begun. Barnes & Noble launched the Nook. In neighbouring Canada a new entrant Kobo is starting up dotted with 16 million US by amongst others Borders. But in Europe, Amazon.com

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In the past weeks e-readers have been at the center of attention. Amazon.com has gone international with the sales of its e-reader, at last. And Barnes & Noble has introduced its e-reader with two screens. But now announcements are coming from different nooks (!): tire manufacturer Bridgestone, hardware/software manufacturer Creative Labs and consumer electronics manufacturer LG. In the meantime,

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Beginning of October a press statement was released by Amazon about the international launch of a global Kindle. The global Kindle would be a Kindle 2, it would be 20 US dollar cheaper than the price of the US Kindle at that time and AT&T would be the telecom carrier worldwide instead of Sprint Verizon. The e-books will be only in English/American and will be two US dollars more expensive; the

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The bookshop chain Barnes & Noble with 1300 retail stores had already announced its rentree into the e-book; it had also announced that it would launch its own e-reader. Now the announcement is official and the e-reader, named the Nook (meaning a secluded place or space), can be pre-ordered at 259 US dollar to be delivered in November. The device has two outstanding features: a six-inch reading

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The annual pilgimage for publishers to the Frankfurter Book Fair is over. On this largest book grail publishers walk kilometers, select potential books to be translated and talk about the latest developments in the sector over a beer or a good dinner. And the e-reader definitely was on the menu of the item list. The marketing bureau Forrester forcated a sale of 1 million e-readers in the

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The Dutch e-Reader developer iRex Technologies will have a new consumer e-Reader in the US shops for 399 US dollar by October. iRex Technologies hopes to counter attack Sony and Amazon with it. The e-Reader will be available in the US only for the time being. (more)

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On August 26, 2009 the Dutch book world, publishers as well as physical and internet bookshops, launched e-Books in a gross manner. Sony had forged an alliance with Bol.com. And the Dutch central book logistics operator started the eBook home EBoekhuis, storing 3000 Dutch language books and linking to 200.000 English language books. After 15 years the break through has finally taken place. (more)

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In the past week Dutch bookstores could not keep the news under their hat about e-Books. Today the big news broke: the Dutch central book logistics operator opened a database with 2000 Dutch language e-Books and Bol.com together with Sony launched their cooperation to conquer the market. So far three benefits have come from it. Firstly, E-book is taken serious from now on. Secondly, Sony has

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iRex Technologies has confirmed that it will launch a new e-reader, for the time being only for the US market. A few details have been leaked and confirmed by iRex Technologies. The e-reader is the latest arm in the American e-reader market with Sony’s e-readers, Amazon Kindle I and II and e-readers for Hearst and Barnes & Nobles waiting in the wings. With some 4,5 million e-readers around in the

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So far Amazon.com was dominating the US eReader and eBook market, overruling Sony who was the first player on the US market. But now it gets competition from Barnes & Noble. And in the wings Hearst is still waiting. Only Sony is present in the European market. (more...)

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The German magazine Wirtschafts Woche brings the item that Vodafone is developing an eBook reader. The article does not have any hard facts about the developer and the type of eBook reader, except that it is a large screen (DIN-A4) for newspapers. Vodafone is presently in the test phase. (more)

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You do not know what to do with your summer time? Start reading eBooks. From July 4 till August 4 more than 2 million eBooks are available online and for free through World eBook Fair program! This year the fourth edition will be held of the World eBook Fair. (more)

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Something is changing in the e-reader scene. Plastic Logic e-book reader has now 3G. And even more newsworthy is the acquisition of E-Ink by PVI. What is going on in this world? The news of Plastic Logic is not really breaking news. But after Kindle and the iLiad using 3G, it will mean that the business e-readers are going to compete on a plain level. The question will be of course whether

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It is not only e-readers, where you see changes. Also in the distribution of e-books things are moving. Google will soon offer a program for publishers to offer the digital versions of their books. But also the e-book veteran, the Project Gutenberg, will increase its offer and aims at the smart phones and iPhones in particular. (more)

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The Fortune announcement of the American publishing company Hearst launching an eReader, asks for some research. As it was indicated in the Fortune announcement that there would be a wireless device with a large screen with black and white for the time being, speculation was raised that iRex Technologies or Plastic Logic would be potential manufacturers. But from the googling it became clear that

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Of e-Books and digital paperType: mini-series of 18 instalments, starting July 26, 2006

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Hearst, The American publisher of books, magazines and books, plans to launch its own eReader this year, Fortune reports, citing industry sources. The company will start competing with Amazon and Sony, who are on the market respectively with the Kindle 2 and the Sony eReader PRS 700. (more)

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The digital paper eReader manufacturer Plastic Logic has announced agreements with its first content partners, including the nation’s leading content aggregators and two of the most valued daily newspapers for business readers. The agreements with Ingram Digital (ebooks), LibreDigital (enewspapers), Zinio (emagazines) and a direct relationship with business newspaper, the Financial Times, and the

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This posting is a milestone, in more than one sense. This posting is numbered 1300; since May 1, 2006 I have logged developments in ICT, new media and journalism. And in this posting I treat the launch of the Kindle 2, which will be a powerful stimulus to the sales of eBooks and specific reading devices for the coming year.The Kindle 2 is not just a successor with some minor changes to the Kindle

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From the US a new unit will come which will cost under 200 euro. The e-Slick reader will be available from Foxit. The reader has a6 inch screen, 128 Mb internal memories and a SD card slot for SD cards up to 4Gb memory. It supports PDF and TXT formats and has a built-in mp3 player, which makes it interesting for audio books. It weighs 180 gram and is 9,2 millimetres high. It looks like many of

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Pupils of two schools in Maastricht (The Netherlands) will have their own laptop, specially developed for education. These laptops are part of the One Laptop Per Child XO project, also known as the 100$ laptop. The schools in Maastricht will also twin with schools in Nicaragua. The project, set-up by the Foundation OpenWijs (OpenWise) in cooperation with the municipality of Maastricht, is the

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On November 5, 2008, the Computer Museum in Mountain View (Ca.) celebrated the 40th anniversary of the laptop. In 1968 the researcher Alan Kay of Xerox PARC developed Dynabook. The Dynabook was never built, but the design formed the start of the laptops, tablet PCs and Ultra Mobile PCs (UMPC), while e-readers form a subset of the Dynabook. (more)

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The Dutch research company TNO will start a program researching the e-reader chin. It will bring together the participants from the entire chain and will look into usage, data format, chain integration and business models. TNO will work together with publishers and retail companies. (more)

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I have been interviewed for an article European Publishers Gear Up for Brave New World of E-Books on the Deutsche Welle site. One quote: 'Jak Boumans, a Dutch media-content consultant who runs his own firm, Electronic Media Reporting, is convinced e-books are here to stay. But he estimates it will be at least 2030 before they are in wide usage, considering how many details still need to be ironed

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Amazon.com was expected to launch the Kindle e-reader at the Frankfurt Book Fair. However the online retailer has become caught in Europe's complex web of Wi-Fi operators. It will be unable to sell the e-reader at Chistmas time, but is now expected to launch the device in Europe in 2009, according to an article in the Telegraph.

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Liquavista today launched Liquavista ColorBright, the company's first display platform built using its patented electrowetting technology. Targeted at segment-driven display applications including watches and mobile phone secondary displays, its unique combination of outstanding brightness in natural light and vivid colour range offers new legibility and design freedom to creators of design-led

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With the arrival of competition in the e-reader field in worldwide and especially in Europe, the issue of e-book distribution should be addressed. For the US and UK market there are already a number of e-book outlets. And Sony has even fine-tuned its US online e-book shop and is benefitting from the sales of its e-readers and of the sale of e-books (which boils down to the iPod model). But what

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When iRex Technologies recently launched the 10,2 inch screen, the usual objections to an e-reader were heard again: the screen is only for black and white representation and there is no video possible. In response to these objections, I noted in my posting that a colour screen was not far off, but that video was on the horizon by 2012. Colour will be around by 2009, according to Russ Wilcox, the

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Sony has announced that it will introduce its reader PRS 505 with its digital paper screen in 2009 in The Netherlands. The reader became available in the USA in 2006 and was introduced in the UK in September 2008 by Waterstone and has been introduced by the FNAC bookshop in France. The introduction will not go unnoticed a Sony representative said.First reactions to the announcement are not

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The music publishers and distributors know it in the meantime: DRM does not work. E-book publishers and distributors still believe in it. So they follow eagerly very development in the field of DRM. They know that DRM-0 stands for not secured; DRM-1 is password protected, while DRM-2 contains an individual name like an ex-libris. Now they are looking closely at DRM-3, which is considered to be a

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Kindle is rumoured to launch a European Kindle at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt in October 2008. Deutsche Telekom researches digital newspaper. Sony open for other formats and starts distributing e-readers in the UK. Cybook works with SFR on wireless e-reader. iRex technologies distributes iLiad without wireless through Borders in the UK. (more)

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Der Spiegel, the sister publication of the German newspaper Bild, published a story on Deutsche Telecom being interested in digital newspapers. However the story was rather vague as the spokes person told the reporter that the telecom company did not have a content agreement with a newspaper nor did the spokesperson say anything on the e-reader(s) to be used. The story should be taken serious as

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Well, it is finally happening in the UK: the large-scale introduction of e-readers and e-books. The bookstore chain Waterstone and Sony are taking pre-launch orders for the e-reader of 199 pounds (232 euro) to be launched in September. Will the combination of a bookstore and a consumer electronics giant make an impression on the UK market? Does the combination fulfil the conditions for the iPod

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Next September, Esquire will diffuse 100.000 specimens of its magazine with a cover containing digital paper. A message flickering will post “the 21st century begins now”, until the batteries become exhausted (approximately three months). Esquire, subsidiary of the group Hearst, investor in the E-Ink company, will keep the exclusiveness in the process until 2009.Source: http://

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Several times writing about e-Books, I have posed the question why Apple would not get into the fray. With so many iPods around and more recently the iPods, the Apple products have a perfect point of departure of becoming text iPods. Well it is happening now. Fictionwise and e-Reader.com, both e-Book web shops, have announced the availability of its free eReader application for eBooks on the

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While I was in Paris a lot of e-reader news came out in France. I knew that the tenth e-reader round table Rencontres Tebaldo was held on July 8. But being back at my desk, I read that the telecom company SFR (Société Française de Radiotéléphonie) had started a pilot with the wireless e-reader GeR2, adapted for the new Ganaxa publishing platform on July 4. The screen of the e-reader is digital

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The UK book chain Blackwell (photograph of the first Backwell bookshop in Oxford) will offer print-on-demand in its book shops. The book will be printed while customers wait. The book seller will install Espresso Book Machines (EBM). Eventually al 60 book shops of the Blackwell chain will have such a machine. The EBM can currently print about 40 pages per minute, but newer models will double that

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There is some excitement in the e-book world. The publisher O’Reilly will create another sensation. From early July, and I believe that it will be on Thursday July 10, it will release DRM free e-books. And not only that. The publishing house will release them in PDF with two other formats (EPUB and Mobipocket), so that the user can put them on other platforms in the preferred format. So you buy

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In Spring 2008, ebrary collaborated with more than 150 college and university librarians throughout the world to develop an informal survey to better understand students’ usage, needs, and perceptions with regard to e-books. (more)

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A bachelor graduate of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam produced a Bachelor Thesis on the influences of digital publishing on the traditional book publishing sector in The Netherlands. It is an interesting thesis, written in the English language by Nicole Neven. I had a chance of reading and digesting the 51 pages.In this thesis Nicole Neven tested the theory about electronic publishing in The

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It was a great meeting yesterday. The small band of eReaders friends gathered to discuss the fate and future of the eReaders. Of course everyone brought an eReader along or an Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC). It was a nice collection of gadgets. In the range of the eReaders the real iLiad (not the emasculated Book version) was on the table as well as the Cybook and the Hanlin. The real trophy was the XO

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Yesterday I attended a presentation by Gert Jan Oelderik, the managing director/publisher of the Dutch quality paper NRC Handelsblad, part of the PCM Holding. The newspaper started two months ago with presenting the newspaper on iLiad as ePaper. (more)

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On May 8 2008, I made a presentation at the Department of Communication and Journalism of the Utrecht University of Applied Science. After the presentation I was interviewed by a team of future journalists. You can see the video of the interview; however it is a Dutch language interview. Untitled from HUmedia.nl on Vimeo.

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It was a surprise last Thursday to come home from the lecture in Utrecht and find the announcement of iRex Technologies, that they have now a light edition of the iLiad as a dedicated book edition, including 50 classics. This all for the price of 499 euro. (more)

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9 May 200: Training a media versatile journalist8 May 2008: Flash iLiad8 May 2008: eReader does not add value to journalism

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29 april 2008: The effect of Kindle19 April 2008: Green e-book nonsense18 April 2008: Penguin to launch 5.000 books3 April 2008: Great discussion on ebooks and epapers

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