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Sunday, 8th August 2010

E-Book News Roundup (incl. New, Free, and Powerful eBook Format Conversion Tool; Death of Physical Book; Enhanced eBooks, and More)

+ New, Free, Online Converter Does ebooks (via TeleRead)
TeleRead's Paul Biba was "pleased" with the results that this free tool offers. In addition to ebooks, the converter works its magic with audio, image, video, and documents files Direct to online-ConVert.com.

+ Nicholas Negroponte on the Death of the Physical Book (In the Next Five Years) (via TechCrunch)

+ WSJ: Mass Paperback House Dorchester Goes Digital (via WSJ)
No more physical books for Dorchester Publishing, just digital/e-books.

+ E-Book Wars: The Specialist vs. the Multitasker (via NY Times)
Kindle=Specialist and the iPad=Multitasker.

Randall Stross writes:

The Kindle from Amazon.com is designed to let us do one thing very well: read. To survive, it must excel at this, not only by jostling to stay a nose ahead of other e-readers, but also by maintaining an enormous lead over the Apple iPad and its coming competitors. The multipurpose iPad can do thousands of things very well; used for reading book-length texts, it doesn’t excel, but it’s passable.

+ e-Books From an Author’s Point of View (By Simon Wood via GigaOm)

+ New law, e-books and rentals may make college textbooks less costly (via USA Today/AP)

+ HarperCollins Released Enhanced eBooks; Will Do Simultaneous eBook Releases (via TeleRead)

+ Pricing of E-Books Draws Increased Antitrust Scrutiny (via WSJ)

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