Ebook News & Articles

Deck the halls with pads and tablets! It seems the recently concluded holiday season has resulted in healthy sales figures for tablets and e-readers. This has probably lined Apple's and Amazon's pockets with enough cash to last until next Christmas. Would you believe that tablet and e-book reader ownership doubled over the past holiday season?

Android tablets have come and gone. And while some are enjoying immense popularity -- like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer that plugs into a keyboard dock to become a netbook -- the iPad is still the leading device in the tablet market. Amazon (news, site) wants to compete against Apple and everyone else by building its own Android Tablet, which is rumored to have its launch sometime this Fall.

As we wrap up Read an E-book Week, e-books continue to make headlines. As it turns out, while technology has made it possible to read many books from one device, publishers and other traditional venues of book distribution have yet to catch up.

It’s Read an E-book Week and as we celebrate authors, readers and the devices that help make reading electronically possible, we are also taking a look at emerging digital reading trends.

Thanks to mobile devices like the iPad and the Kindle, eReading and ebooks are growing in popularity, bringing new life to the publishing industry. A recent report illustrates just how far the eBook market has come in the past year.

Authors need their own mobs, right? AuthorMob -- a new service that creates iPhone and iPad apps to promote authors and their eBooks -- unveiled itself this week at BookExpo America (BEA), North America’s largest book industry event.

There are indications that e-books and the reading devices, like Kindle and the Nook, are becoming more mainstream and as a result they are having an interesting impact on the way we interact with content, both online and in print.

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Highlights of the Week

• Autonomy Leads Search and Discovery Market According to IDC. A recent IDC research report shows Autonomy is leading the search and discovery market in terms of both revenues and market share.
• Amazon EC2 Customer Hammered by DDOS Attack. Amazon may be one of the 200 lbs information gorillas in the cloud, but it's not immune to taking a good beating, as this unfortunate customer story shows.
• Alfresco Achieves DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification. Alfresco has become the first open source product to demonstrate compliance with the DoD 5015.02 STD spec.
• Microsoft Creates FUSE Labs for Social Media Research. Reorganization strikes again! General Manager Lili Cheng is set to head the new FUSE Labs for Social Media Research at Microsoft, an apt title as the group will fuse members of the Creative Systems Group with the Rich Media and Startup Labs.
• e-Spirit CMS Gets More Serious About Content Re-use. e-Spirit, the makers of FirstSpirit CMS, released a new module called Database Pool that goes on top of the core content management platform.
• eXo Takes Its Enterprise CMS and CEO to the US. Another European company has announced that it is opening a US office. This time the location is San Francisco and the company is open source solution provider eXo.
• Yooba Adds Content Only Editor to Flash Web CMS. We've already expressed the growing interest around Flash-based content management systems this week, so let's get straight down to business with Yooba announcement about a cool little content editor for integration with existing CMS platforms.

Most Popular Articles

And these are the articles you couldn't get enough of during the past week -- if page views are anything to go by, anyways. So, what was your fancy? Twitter, CMS, iPhone and Google.

• Crowd Fusion, a Web Publishing Platform for Topic based Websites. One of the newest web content management platforms to come our way is Crowd Fusion CMS. Although only in private beta testing at this time, it is getting some notice.
• Top 5 Best Twitter Tools for Business. Endless analysts, "social media experts" and pundits are telling you that it's imperative that you develop your Twitter presence. Yes, yes, yes… As for the tools, here are what we consider the top 5 twitter tools worth some of your precious time.
• Google Goes After SharePoint with New Sites API. With the introduction of Google's new Sites API -- and some tools that explicitly pull stuff out of SharePoint and place it into Google Sites -- the real heat between Redmond and Mountain View is finally starting to build.
• Ektron Snaps Up Former Interwoven CMS Evangelist. With the M&A activity in the content management space not dwindling down despite the economic crisis, it’s only natural to see the content management industry talent hop around. At times, that happens in a fashion resembling the game called “A Cold Wind Blows.”
• Social Media Minute: Employers Ban Social Media, Twitter Finally Gets Revenue Deals. According to a study from Robert Half Technology, a little more than half of U.S. workplaces are banning their employees from viewing and interacting with social networking sites.
• Jive Wants to Socialize Your SharePoint Enterprise Content. Jive Software has a new strategy designed to extend SBS across an organization's content silos. The plan? Take enterprise content stored in your Enterprise CMS and socialize it within SBS.
• The Great Flash for the iPhone Fake Out. Yes, Flash has been brought to the iPhone. No, you can't view Flash-based Web content on the iPhone. Kind of a rough deal, right?

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• Day Ignite Zurich 2009 -- Oct 14-Oct 15 (Zurich, CH)
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