Practical Technology

The Apple iPad is going to face serious competition from Android Linux-powered tablets, but the first mass-market, low-priced tablet to arrive, the Augen GenTouch78 isn’t it. The tablet does have some good things going for it. While it’s made from black plastic, it has a solid feel. Better still, it comes with a form-fitting, faux-leather [...]

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knew e-books would be big. What I didn’t know would be that they would get so big, so fast. On July 28th, Amazon announced that Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoohas become the first e-book to sell a million copies. It won’t be the last. Stephenie Meyer and James Patterson are quickly closing [...]

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Amazon has just announced that in the last quarter it sold 143 Kindle e-books for every 100 hardcover books it sold. Actually, that’s just the tip of the e-book iceberg. You see, Amazon also announced that in the last four weeks, it has sold 180 digital books for every 100 hardcover books. And, of course, [...]

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When I went to college, there were days I’d carry over 20-pounds of books to school in a backpack. Of course, we had it tough back then, “We used to ‘ave to get up out of shoebox at twelve o’clock at night and lick the road clean wit’ tongue. We had two bits of cold [...]

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My goodness. When I wrote about the Barnes & Noble Nook and Amazon Kindle’s price-war as showing the way to the end of dedicated e-readers, I didn’t expect quite so many people to insist I was wrong. Wrong I tell you! Of course some people, like ZDNet’s Jason Perlow agreed with me that “eReader devices [...]

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