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August 5, 2011
eReading Application Showdown
India Amos has launched a series of articles to analyze eReaders by functionality titled E-Reading Application Showdown on Digital Book World: The Publishing Community for the 21st Century. The areas she plans to discuss are
- Annotation
- Typography
- Colors and themes
- Wayfinding
- Metadata
- Social Media
And the apps are
- Google Books
- iBooks
- Kobo
- Kindle
- Nook
The series offers to be very interesting for anyone who has not the opportunity to give all the apps a test drive. Here's the links to the first two installments by India Amos:
- E-Reading Application Showdown, Part 1 – Annotations
- E-Reading Application Showdown, Part 2: Typography
Library Switches eReaders. Meanwhile, the school librarians at Creekview High School (Canton, GA) explain why Kindle's revised TOS is the reason Nook Simple Touch has become the school's “go to” device this academic year. See The Unquiet Librarian's Why We Won’t Purchase More Kindles at The Unquiet Library. [JH]
August 5, 2011 in Electronic Resource, Products & Services, Publishing Industry | Permalink
