Tag archive: Book

Funnyman and Twitter user Steve Martin has decided to publish a book of his tweets. Whether anyone wants to buy a book of tweets that can be easily viewed online is another matter, but the good news is that profits from any sales will be going to charity.  Martin announced his intention to compile a book of his tweets in, not surprisingly, a tweet.  “Due to absolutely no demand, soon I'm publishing a book of my tweets. Many of your… Read More

According to new research from the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The Economist Group, eleven percent of U.S. adults own a tablet computer and over 75 percent of that group uses the tablet on a daily basis. The daily users typically spend 95 minutes using the tablet on any given day. While checking up on news is one of the most popular tasks to perform on a tablet, only 14 percent of that group have spent… Read More

Those of you keen to get the inside story – the authorized one – on Steve Jobs will be pleased to learn that the release of Steve Jobs: A Biography has been brought forward four months by publisher Simon & Schuster. 9to5Mac spotted the information about the new release date – November 21 – on bookseller Barnes & Noble’s website. Tracey Guest, director of publicity for Simon & Schuster, told the New York Times… Read More

Paul Allen's new book, Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft, will hit book shelves this week. Most of the early buzz has dwelled on Allen's contentious relationship with Bill Gates, who Allen claims tried to dilute his shares when he had cancer in the early days of Microsoft. Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes asks about the major controversies in the book while touring Allen's huge estate, including his museum of jet… Read More

Bill Gates may be the world's most giving philanthropist, but he's not always been so charitable, even with his close friends — at least according to a new memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. In the book, entitled “Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-founder of Microsoft,” Allen offers a “revisionist take” on the early days of Microsoft, reports the Wall Street Journal. Allen's side of the story paints… Read More

The United States Patent and Trademark Office is really losing it. The department is granting Facebook a trademark to the word 'face.' The social network already owns the word 'book.' Facebook received a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO, now all it must do is pay a fee and file a Statement of Use to obtain its trademark. Luckily the trademark has some limits. According to TG Daily, the trademark covers use of the word… Read More

If you've ever dreams of reading literary classics on your iPhone or Android device instead of buying a Kindle or working to shoehorn free etexts onto your phone, Google has some good news for you: the company has launched a mobile version of Google Book Search (point your phones here) that provides mobile access to more than 1.5 million public domain books—at least in the United States. (Outside the U.S., selection is currently… Read More

With Western Digital’s recent entries into the fashion segment of portable hard drives, you might expect a product dubbed the Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition to be a trendy book-shaped drive with a finish you can shave in. Sadly for this writer’s imagination, it’s not. The “mirror” in the new My Book represents the twice redundant way it stores your data, to save your most important files from… Read More

In a short amount of time the number of hard drive vendors offering 2 TB storage solutions to everyday consumers has grown from “barely any” to a respectable collection. That group is now even larger, as Western Digital announces that all its dual-drive My Book external hard drives are now available in 2 TB capacities. The dual-drive models are handily identified by the Roman numeral II after their name, so the models offering 2… Read More

Google has expanded its much-debated Google Book Search to enable users to download complete copies of public domain books in PDF format. When using Google Book Search, users can access a complete version via the services' Full View button; if the book is in the public domain and a complete version is available, a Download button will be shown. Google is not enabling the download of books which are under current copyright; at present,… Read More

Sony Online Entertainment and Planetwide Games yesterday announced a Web version of the latter's Comic Book Creator is under development for subscribers of SOE's Station Players service and should be ready this fall. Also announced was the upcoming summer digital availability of the Comic Book Creator software plus special SOE game-themed art packs for purchase through SOE's Station.com online store. Comic Book Creator,… Read More

Brian Kopp of Bronson, Florida, has filed suit in a California federal court alleging that Blizzard Entertainment has unfairly terminated eBay auctions for his unofficial book, The Ultimate World of Warcraft Leveling & Gold Guide. The 24 year-old Kopp has sold several hundred copies of his book via eBay since August 2005 for roughly $15 apiece. Shortly after his first auctions got underway, Blizzard, Vivendi Universal, and the… Read More

Hard drive maker Western Digital yesterday rolled out a stylish line of external FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 hard drives designed to stand vertically on desktops and bookshelves. The new My Book series is available in prices ranging from $179.99 to $349.99. The My Book hard drive series, said Western Digital, has what the company describes as a "unique, iconic-book shaped enclosure". The drives, which comes in a basic USB 2.0 version as… Read More

Book publisher HarperCollins today dipped their toe into the Internet waters as they unveiled that they were making the full text of a business book available online for free, on an ad supported basis. The book, "Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own", is available at author Bruce Judson's website. The posting of the entire contents of this book online for free, said HarperCollins, tests a new… Read More

Online shopping site Amazon.com today announced plans for two new digital book programs which will enable customers to have greater flexibility in their reading choices. These programs, called Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade, are built upon the company's "Search Inside the Book" technology, which allows consumers to search the interior text of hundreds of thousands of books. The Amazon Pages program, Amazon.com said, will allow… Read More