Tag archive: Mark Twain

The ebook market may be fixated on the Amazon Kindle at the moment, but that doesn't mean Sony is giving up on its own Reader Digital Book: the company announced today that it has partnered with Google so its own eBookstore now provides free access to more than half a million public domain titles via Google Books. The move boosts the number of titles available from Sony's eBookstore from just over 100,000 to over 600,000, and… 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

In a big, and very surprising, move, Apple has announced that next month’s Macworld will be its last. After 2009 the company will no longer participate in the gathering, and also said that company head Steve Jobs won’t be offering the keynote address in January. Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told the BBC: "Apple is steadily scaling back on trade shows and in recent years is reaching more people in more ways than ever… Read More

In one of those Mark Twain moments, the news of Steve Jobs’ death has been greatly exaggerated. His obituary was accidentally sent out to clients by Bloomberg News wire, marked “Hold for release – Do not use.” But the Apple boss, who was treated for pancreatic cancer in 2004, is still very much alive. The 2,500 word piece, which left the age and cause of death blank, described Job as a man who “helped make… Read More

It's no secret that the advertising industry is driven by numbers and statistics: page impressions, viewership, size of audience, readership estimates, circulation, numbers of viewers, ROI, CPM, and a passel of other acronyms, metrics, and confusing numbers. While we in the technology industry are used to citing and tossing off many statistics about how many people use particular technologies, play particular games, or own particular… Read More

Earlier this week, analysis from Forrester Research examining credit card transactions with Apple's iTunes Music Store reported to show that digital music sales were collapsing. Apple quickly refuted the report, stating Forrester's conclusions were “simply incorrect.” And today, market analysis firms comScore and Piper Jaffray have jumped into the fray, claiming that not only are the number of buying transactions for… Read More