The search for the perfect Kindle cover

I recently acquired a Kindle 4 for Christmas and am eager to avoid it ending up scratched and bashed like everything else (phone, mp3 player, etc all blighted by unsightly dents and blemishes) because i live by my personal mantra: “if it ain’t tough, it won’t survive”! So clearly it is very important to find [...]

Apple launches iBooks 2 app

The hottest news of the week in the publishing world was the announcement by Apple that they were launching the iBooks 2 app. This app allows anyone to create their own ebook. It is mainly for authors wanting to create textbook ebooks for studying, with the app allowing them to upload content such as videos, [...]

Ipads in society

I was in a restaurant a few nights ago (celebrating my graduation from university, might i add!) with my parents, and my mum spotted a woman on a table behind us who had brought her Ipad with her to dinner. Now we thought this to be quite an interesting, but odd sight, particularly as it was [...]

Going Digital: Is it all it’s cracked up to be?

Is going digital all its cracked up to be? Like everything else, digital does has its downsides, and although the following are more speculation than anything else, they are things to think about if we carry on down this path. How empty is our world going to be in the future, if we no longer have [...]

Ebooks: Good and Bad

With all this fuss about Ebooks, i thought i would just sum up the main points about Ebooks, both the good and the bad, just in case people don’t understand all the fuss and debate around them. Advantages of Ebooks: They can be accessed on pretty much any device these days, whether its a mobile phone, [...]