ebooks
I wanted to provide a short update about a project I have been working on recently that I am very excited about. It is called E-Books for Troops and is a non-profit initiative that I co-founded with Len Edgerly of The Kindle Chronicles and The Reading Edge podcasts. The goal of E-Books for Troops is to become the leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing free e-readers and e-books to the members of our military who are deployed overseas.
Qualcomm’s new Marisol display technology is quite impressive. It has vibrant color, longer battery life than e-ink screens, supports video, works in the sunlight, is not backlit, and is arriving at least a couple years ahead of the conventional wisdom on when e-ink could go color.
Earlier this week I read a “real” book for the first time since I got my Kindle last year. It was interesting to see how much my brain had retrained itself to the Kindle.
Newsweek recently published a great interview with Jeff Bezos in which he talks about the Kindle’s success, Amazon’s business philosophy, how Kindle fits with the rumored Apple tablet, and more. I could have easily plucked a half dozen quotes from it. You should definitely check it out.
Marco Arment has a great post on why for the typical user of an e-book reader, improving the rendering of grayscale on e-ink screens is far more important than developing color e-ink technology.
Andy Ihnatko on the “rumored Apple tablet”, its impact on digital publishing, and why 2010 is going to be a landmark year in tech: