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Are e-books more eco-friendly than paper books?

Sam Jordison on the Guardian Books Blog meditates on the eco-friendliness of e-books. He mentions a study on the Kindle that estimates a Kindle produces “roughly 168 kg” of carbon dioxide during its lifetime, whereas a single book produces about 7.46 ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  14 Mar 2010

Jason Epstein looks into the future of publishing

In digitization, Epstein sees both a blessing and a curse. It will be possible for anyone to become a publisher, “and only the ultimate filter—the human inability to read what is unreadable—will remain to winnow what is worth keeping". Publishers will ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  14 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Amazon.com

Quick Notes: Que enqueued, iPad, Playboy, DRM, Ebert, and more

Plastic Logic has announced it is delaying the Que for several more months. As CNet points out, with the advent of the iPad this may be a product whose time has already come and gone. It is hard to see paying $649 for a black-and-white-only reader, no ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  13 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Plastic Logic

What price e-magazines?

We are constantly hearing about issues of e-book price, but it seems very little has been said on the matter of e-magazine price. In an interesting and lengthy piece, linking to a number of other sources, Stephen Duque looks pricing matters relating ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  13 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Marc Andreesen,  TechCrunch

E-readers vs. tablets: Is it really a competition?

With the release date of the iPad nearing, and a dozen different e-ink-based e-book readers exploding onto the market, the e-book device field is more confused than ever. Are pretty color tablets going to spell the end of black-and-white e-ink readers? ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  13 Mar 2010

Apple releases iBooks information

First of all, iBooks will allow you to “add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad.” That’s right, the page specifically uses the word “free”. Presumably it means “DRM-free”—since iBooks won’t use or support ADEPT, if ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  13 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Authors Guild

Pocketbook 302 review: Preconceptions

The 302 is Pocketbook’s most advanced model so far. It seems to be a pretty standard 6” e-ink reader (with the standard USB interface), with the addition of wifi and some apps including RSS, Sudoku, and—according to the Nate’s Ebook News review of it—a ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  13 Mar 2010

State of the publishing industry: Armageddon or rapture?

A pair of articles in the Huffington Post last month pose that question when taken together. Agin points out that reading Kindle books does not require an actual Kindle, and anyone with a computer (or iPhone, though Agin does not mention that) has the ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  12 Mar 2010

Quick Notes: Paywalls, audience-building, Qualcomm, Crunchy Nook

It’s good to hear that Condé Nast is more clueful about building an audience in the new media than some other publishing conglomerates—though given that they publish both Wired and Ars Technica, this is hardly a surprise. Qualcomm has submitted a ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Qualcomm,  Facebook Inc.

NPR covers e-book pricing

It is a quite well-balanced report, laying out the major arguments on both sides. The only drawback is that it does not mention Baen, which makes a great counter-example to the argument that e-books necessarily have to be expensive. Digg us. Slashdot ...

From CHRIS MEADOWS, TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home,  12 Mar 2010

Related Topics: Digg,  Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  NPR

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