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What’s Forward – Future Developments In E-book Readers

Posted by on Monday, 6 February, 2012

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E book readers have stormed the market because the launch of the popular wildly Amazon Kindle. Initially the Kindle was bought out and Amazon was not in a position to keep up with the demand for the brand new gadget. Since the debut of the Kindle there are quite a few new e-book readers on the market. And more ebook readers are nearly to return out. The popularity of these devices is only increasing. What may the world of e-book readers seem like in the near future? Here are some predictions about e book readers for the near future.

We will see widespread and commonplace formats.

One factor which may happen with these readers is a typical format. This might be a common format to work on all ebook readers. This shall be vital because authors and publishers will want to have a format where they can promote to all of the hundreds of thousands of ebook reader homeowners versus just a small subset of the market for just one reader. Corporations like Amazon may be unwilling to undertake this at first. In spite of everything, if they will management the format, they have far more management over pricing. However we expect it is certain to occur especially if Amazon can sell to tens of millions of non-Kindle readers.

Varied book firms will type unique contracts with publishing companies.

One other actuality is an unique contract. A write might just publish for one system and one system only. If the author is popular enough and the incentive is high enough, this might happen. Again, this offers a level of management of business choices and pricing. When Apple created a whole music library with iTunes after which controlled distribution of the music, they instantly had the higher hand. Publishers don’t need the same thing to occur to books. They need to control distribution.

There shall be digital media with printed books.

As these new reader units develop into more widespread, many printed ebook purchases may also give you access to the downloadable e book reader model of the e book as well. This would nonetheless give printed books dominance while giving those that have e-book readers cause to exit and shop for real books. DVDs at the moment are doing this model the place you get the physical product, the DVD, in addition to the digital copy. We think that the nice old paper guide just isn’t going to disappear anytime too soon. But, like with so many nice shifts, we do think that increasingly more paper books might want to share the market with digital books.

Digital textbooks will enter the market.

It is solely a matter of time that expensive textbooks begin changing into ebooks. Faculties will want these readers for their first 12 months college students to have the ability to place textbook and homework material on them. These may turn into a part of many classrooms. Like with many know-how advances, the younger generations will embrace the change first.

We expect that ebooks are here to stay. They will not take over completely any time soon, but they will play an increasingly vital function within the distribution of information.

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How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video

Posted by on Sunday, 29 January, 2012

Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already ?beaten first to digital music by Apple. Jeff Bezos never wants that to happen again.



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DrMelon and the rush of startups to mobile health

Posted by on Tuesday, 24 January, 2012

DrMelon's interface works for the web and a phone.

Dr. Sang Hoon Woo is an internist at Stanford Medical School who had grown frustrated listening to his patients’ tales of trying to find health information online and reading about Steve Jobs’ misguided attempts to cure his cancer using homeopathic means found on the web. Dr. Woo decided he had to do something to help his profession reach consumers in the online (and mobile) age. So like the folks who created WebMD or Dr. Koop or myriad other online medical resources, Dr. Woo built DrMelon, with the aim of getting trusted medical information to consumers in an easily digestible form they can access from any device. He’s one of several entrepreneurs trying to bring medicine into the current connected age.

DrMelon (he was eating melon at the time he conceived the site, plus the domain name was available) was created last year, and Dr. Woo is currently raising money to take the site to a real beta within the next few months. He says he wants to be the Apple of healthcare for consumers, but what he’s doing is more akin to becoming a destination site of curated information for medical apps and information, which might make it closer to the iTunes or App Store of medical information.

The site currently offers a curated search, videos, forums and a place for patients to ask questions. Eventually, it will also contain apps recommended by doctors. Because he’s hoping patients bring DrMelon into their doctors’ offices, the web site has the same navigation and features as the mobile app. But Dr. Woo isn’t alone in thinking he has the cure for inaccessible medical information.

Dr. Woo’s startup has similarities to Happtique, a startup spun out of the Greater New York Hospital Association Ventures, that’s currently testing an app store designed for physicians as well as trying to develop a seal of approval for medical apps. In both cases, doctors are seeking ways to help consumers filter the morass of health information on the web, and eventually help build tools that can make finding trusted answers to basic questions (such as drug interactions or the efficacy of certain therapies) easier. This is both a response to spammy search results that invariably pop up when someone drops a medical condition into Google, but also an attempt to help consumers find actionable information on a single question, as opposed to a glut of questionable information on a topic.

For example, I broke my pinky toe again this weekend because I find walking to be a challenge. The DrMelon-curated search is on the right, while the Google search for the same term (broken pinky toe) is on the left. The top result for both comes from the same site, but then results diverge considerably, with Google delivering links to spam and Yahoo Answers, which can deliver less-than-trustworthy advice. This is helpful, but DrMelon, and other curated sites become super valuable if they can help create a searchable Quora-like network of expertise around medicine, where people can ask the community questions and get quality responses. Of course there’s a world of difference between asking someone to name their favorite cloud computing startups online and asking someone if that weird lump you feel in your armpit might be cancer.

Meanwhile, it’s not clear if there’s a business model around providing trusted information from doctors to consumers outside the physician’s office. Happtique wants developers to pay to have their apps reviewed by physicians in order to get its stamp of approval, while Dr. Woo is a bit more wait-and-see about revenue for now (he does run ads on the Google-generated search results he curates). Given this and a rash of other medical startups, plus the creation of the health-focused incubator Rock Health, many people see an opportunity to bring the web into the connected age, but the route to success isn’t certain.

For now, the innovation is happening around the edges, as consumers play around with data-gathering devices and share personal health challenges with friends. Employers are also involved, by buying health plans that try to entice people into social programs that promote good lifestyle decisions using gamification and other social carrots. As Dr. Woo and the hospitals working with rival Happtique are discovering, there’s a large gray area around apps, the web and business models that still needs to be defined.

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Apple’s iBooks 2 e-textbooks pack tons of info, take up tons of your iPad’s memory

Posted by on Thursday, 19 January, 2012

Apple just got done unveiling its new iBooks 2 platform, letting us in on its plan to revamp education (in part) through its fancy new e-textbooks. These digital volumes look beautiful and come at a relatively meager monetary cost (.99), but a quick perusal of the textbooks available in iTunes reveals they’ll take a sizable chunk of your iPad’s memory. The current lineup of eight texts range in size from 800MB to 2.77GB, so folks looking to grab a full semester’s worth of materials may have to carry an extra iPad or three to get the job done. Not an ideal solution, but a few Apple slates are still easier to schlep across campus than those massive texts you’re used to, right?

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Shazam launches new Player app, lets you get to know your jams better

Posted by on Wednesday, 11 January, 2012

Shazam today released its first fully new app since the launch of the familiar self-titled music tagging app. The new, simply-named Shazam Player offers up streaming lyrics, YouTube videos, concert dates and lets you make playlists on the go. You can also share your favorites via Facebook and Twitter, to properly avoid becoming a musical shut-in. Press release and video after the break.

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Engadget Podcast 270 – 12.30.2011

Posted by on Friday, 30 December, 2011

Happy The Engadget Podcast New Year’s, everybody! You know what to do. Don’t forget to date your checks right.

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