Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors India-based company has just a few hundred machines left in stock. …more

  Las Vegas Review-Journal Launches Digital Services Program Stephens Media Digital Services is a new team within the Review Journal staff dedicated to digital marketing partnerships with local and regional businesses. …more

NL – 042011 Again, we welcome you to our newsletter. In our rapidly changing marketplace – ebooks are gaining ground in the well-established pbook market and new ebook models are emerging constantly – we encourage our authors to stick to quality, presentation, and content-pricing as one path to success. This is a central tenet for [...]

Dark Horse Digital Comics is Giving Away an iPad 2 Dark Horse is going to launch its digital comics app on Wednesday, and as part of the promotion it will be giving away first issues of certain well known series like Criminal Macabre, Abe Sapien: The Drowning, and Joss Whedon’s Fray. DH also plans to [...]

Open Road’s Jeff Sharp Sees Convergence Of Film And Publishing By Dianna Dilworth on April 25, 2011 3:00 PM Open Road Media president/co-founder Jeff Sharp thinks that the lines between film and publishing are blurring. And it is not a surprise, the film producer/publishing executive has helped option more than fifteen film and television properties [...]

Amazon’s Trouble Raises Cloud Computing Doubts By STEVE LOHR Published: April 22, 2011 As technical problems interrupted computer services provided by Amazon for a second day on Friday, industry analysts said the troubles would prompt many companies to reconsider relying on remote computers beyond their control. The Foursquare Web site, as well as some other [...]

Amazon Kindle for Android Now Honeycomb Optimized By: Nicholas Kolakowski | eweek.com Published: April 22, 2011 Amazon has expanded its Kindle app offerings yet again, with an update to Kindle for Android that optimizes the e-reader software for tablets running Google Android 3.0 (codenamed “Honeycomb”). In coming months, Honeycomb devices arriving on store shelves will [...]

Cheapest E-Books Upend the Charts 99-Cent Titles From Unknown Authors Put New Pressure on Big Publishers By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG The nation’s largest book publishers are facing increasing pricing pressure on the digital front as the number of cheap, self-published digital titles gain popularity with readers seeking budget-minded entertainment. Amazon.com Inc.’s top 50 digital best-seller list [...]

Lucifox, EpubReader Turn Firefox into an eBook Reader Have you heard of Ibis Reader? It’s a browser based reading app that will let you open and read an Epub from any browser. But it has one minor problem; you can’t read your own eBooks, just one you download from a limited number of sources. I [...]

Your iPhone Knows Where You Are A story broke onWired today about how the iOS devices are taking your location and storing it in a file. One reporter with Wired posted a screen shot showing everywhere his iPhone has been in the last year. And this is news how exactly? If you’ve ever used a [...]