Are you planning a summer vacation but you’d like input from your friends before your book? Check out TripShare, an iPad app that lets you create and share your itineraries before you book them.
Once you sketch out a plan, you can share it plans with fri…

[Press Release]April 15, 2013 02:30 PM Eastern Daylight TimeKobo Unveils Limited Edition Kobo Aura HD ReaderKobo creates new high-definition eReader for the passionate bookloverTORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kobo, a global leader in eReadin…

As soon as I published the post about Astrid being bought by Yahoo and mentioned I was looking for a new app, my in-box started chiming with suggestions. Wunderlist was one of the more interesting ones, and I’ve been checking it out this week. It has s…

[Press Release]May 16, 2013 07:00 AM Eastern Daylight TimeLeading UK Publishers Partner with NOOK® To Donate Top Selling Children’s Books to Aid the London Evening Standard’s Get Reading Campaign Free Books from Hachette UK, HarperCollins, Pengui…

The Melon headband is a brain-sensing device that monitors brain activities while you are studying, dancing, or just doing yoga to help you track your progress and productivity.
At Melon we are really interested in the idea of Understood Self, which we are tr…

You probably would not expect a legacy title like The Saturday Evening Post to be a leader in the digital media space. The magazine title was founded in 1821, with a dotted line link back to The Pennsylvania Gazette, first published in 1728.

For years the title w…

Digital Public Library Raises Questions of Ownership, Permanence, Access (Media Shift) Why would anyone want to attend a party to celebrate the opening of a virtual repository of metadata? A better question might be — what is a virtual repository of metad…

I think rather than rounding up the news this morning I’ll let the companies speak for themselves, editing out some of the puffery, of course.

Of all the media news, the news from Hearst I find the most interesting (see below). The launch of Totally Global Media…

Pompeii, Its Life and Art by August Mau… is today’s Free eBook of the Day.
The historical text was created by German Archaeological Institute in Rome and originally published by The Macmillian Company in 1899.
Here is an excerpt:
In the construction of colum

Although we knew that the Archos 80 Xenon existed from an Amazon listing, the device is only now official, courtesy of an announcement from its French maker. This is an 8 inch slate with Jelly Bean on board and the design pictured below:

The product will be avail…

Ebook signings are powerful marketing tools. That’s because they create an immediate connection between the reader and the author, allowing for exponential social media and word-of-mouth banter—the sort that helps to sell books. And, “this kind o…

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Guangzhou, China — (SBWIRE) — 05/08/2013 — The digital software publishing company, 3DPageFlip.com, has now made it possible to create an e-book from OpenOffice with 3D PageFlip Standard. This flip page software is a hot-…

Hearst Corporation has launched the Elle Glassware app exclusively designed for Google Glass. The publication is the first magazine to launch a Google Glass app, though it joins other media companies including The New York Times and Mashable both of wh…

Archos has added another budget Android tablet to its range. The 80 Xenon has an 8-inch screen and a decent quad-core processor, plus it has a SIM card slot for data-on-the-go, and a very reasonable price tag.…