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04 Mar, 2009

Amazon now rules eBooks, and Libraries should pay attention (or, why I’m not worried that Amazon will say “All your book are belong to us”, and even if they do, why it doesn’t matter)

Posted by: jaf In: Hardware|Librarianship|digital libraries|eBooks

Amazon got it right – again. Today, they released a Kindle app for the iPhone, thereby allowing iPhone users to access Amazon’s eBook collection. This is big; iPhone owners were already reading eBooks on their devices using one of a variety of eBook reading applications available for the device. Now, Amazon can leverage the iPhone [...]

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Tags: Amazon, Apple, digital libraries, eBooks, eInk, iPhone, iTouch, iTunes, Kindle, Libraries

09 Feb, 2009

WPtouch – Automatic iPhone version

Posted by: jaf In: blog

So, one immediate benefit to moving over to WordPress is the WPtouch plugin. This plugin provides an iPhone / iTouch version of my blog, without affecting the current web template and design. Very cool. And again, very ironic that this is easier to do via WordPress than on Apple’s own platform. Score.

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Tags: iPhone, iTouch, plugin, Wordpress

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Doug Ransom: I think this will be the ideal device for those who are not interested in maintaining and backing up a computer. This will be a great device for peop
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