Quark announced this month the availability of QuarkXPress 9.2, the new update to QuarkXPress 9 that is free to all QuarkXPress 9 customers. QuarkXPress 9 is award-winning design software that enables millions of creative professionals to publish across digital devices as well as to print and the Web. The best part for authors is that [...]
Publishing Push coming from Apple
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Apple could be hosting a special media event in New York City this month. The event won’t be about Apple’s next iPad if reports are believed to be correct. Instead, Apple will be talking directly to the publishing industry. The theme of the event will be publishing and e-books. Considering reports indicate Eddy Cue will [...]
InnoTab, an iPad for children
October 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Recently, Leapfrog introduced its LeapPad tablet for children. A company called VTech has now entered the market with the InnoTab, an inexpensive iPad-like device for kids that plays games, music and ebooks, and offers downloadable apps for the device. USA Today takes a closer look at this second kiddie tablet, which is to hit the market in the [...]
Keeneland Handicapping Book from All Star Press
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Horse racing fans and handicappers who want to profit at the Keeneland 2011 fall meet need to know the tendencies of the trainers that win year-in and year-out at the Lexington racetrack. ”Keeneland Winning Trainer Patterns” analyzes the horsemen and how they have won at Keeneland. Learn more about a new handicapping book released this year from All Star [...]
Unflattering Review of the Amazon Tablet, aka Kindle Fire
September 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tomorrow Amazon will unveil its answer to the iPad, says TechCrunch’s MG Seigler. “On Wednesday morning in New York City, Amazon will unveil the Kindle Fire, which is expected to retail for around $250. It is designed for two fingers, instead of ten. It is described as “like the BlackBerry Playbook, but not in a good [...]
The Birds of America released as an e-book
September 25, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Natural History Museum in the UK has launched its first e-book for the iPad, created from the most expensive book ever sold, John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. The e-book features all 435 illustration plates of the original. The NHM will release a resized printed edition of the 19th-century classic in October, bound [...]
NY Times Writer analyzes various e-readers
September 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is the critical question for us avid readers: Which e-reader or tablet is the best for reading books? “So I set out to try them all, reading a chapter on each: the Amazon Kindle, the first- and second-generation Apple iPads, the Barnes & Noble Nook, an iPhone, a Windows Phone, a Google Android phone, a Google [...]
Amazon Tablet to debut in October
August 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Currently not much is known about Amazon’s tablet. What is known is that it will feature a 9” – 10” touch-screen, a powerful application processor and will be based on Google Android operating system. It is expected to be released in two months. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, the device will be designed by [...]
A Look at the Classroom of the Future
July 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Surprise. Textbooks, notebooks, pencils and pens may soon be obsolete in most classrooms around the country. Some schools are downloading all of their texts for each student into E – books and in Fairfax County, VA school leaders are opting for online Social Studies textbooks starting next year. “More futuristically speaking my expectation is… [READ [...]
Amazon Rumored to Develop a Tablet
July 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Amazon is slated to enter the tablet market with its own Android-based tablet PC as soon as this fall or late summer, reported Digitimes.com. The article reports that Taiwan-based component makers have said the online retail giant is targeting global sales of 4 million units in 2011. “Amazon adopts processors developed by… [READ THE FULL STORY]
