The Guardian's Alison Flood looks at the way the book industry is interacting with digital media, supplementing book releases with interactive apps full of bonus material. Flood looks specifically at Iain Banks' Transition:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jun/28/book-extras-iphone-app
"A young person in any country can access the world's information and get it translated. That's equivalent to the arrival of TV": Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, believes smartphones are the future for Google, and the world, and will empower the poorest people. Here he talks to The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jun/28/eric-schmidt-google-smartphones-activate
John Donahoe, Ebay's chief executive, talks to the FT about how he is invigorating the company, his devotion to gadgetry and his belief that Ebay is poised to dominate the emerging field of mobile shopping: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d6b0746-8251-11df-9467-00144feabdc0.html
Price Cuts Roil the Market For Digital Readers: James McQuivey, Forrester Research's e-reader and e-book analyst talks to Publishers Weekly and says device producers can sustain low prices and grow the market: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/devices/article/43648-price-cuts-roil-the-market-for-digital-readers.html
"Plastic Logic have made the fatal mistake of promising too much and taking too long to deliver in a rapidly changing world": The Bookseller reports that Plastic Logic has cancelled all pre-orders for its large screen e-reader Que - touted as a device for business people - and is no longer showing a date at which the device will be launched:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/121829-pre-orders-for-que-cancelled-launch-date-removed.html.rss
Hang on Every Word: FT critics pick the best of the year's books so far and there are a lot of offerings from Penguin (particularly Allen Lane):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da4adf96-7fe0-11df-91b4-00144feabdc0.html
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