March 25, 2010 :: "Marvell, a manufacturer of semiconductors, has announced a new multimedia tablet that is designed for K-12 students. The tablet is called, Moby, and it will retail for significantly less than other tablet devices. The device will feature 1080p full-HD and 3D media, full flash internet, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM/GPS connectivity, and support for Android and Windows Mobile. According to the press release, the tablet will address three key issues associated with textbooks including: the cost,

February 10, 2010 :: "Suzanne Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University talked the talk in November at Educause, urging a crowd of university librarians to “move on to a new concept of what the university library is” — in her view, a place with fewer books and more space for students to sit around and access library resources on their laptops. But when Thorin tried to walk the walk a week later, she found her path obstructed by hundreds of outraged students and professors who chafed at her plan

March 23, 2010 :: "With falling prices on more advanced multipurpose digital convergence devices such as the iPad, HP Slate and Android tablets, single purpose e-reader devices such as the Kindle face extinction. April 3, 2010 will mark the beginning of the end for Amazon’s great hardware experiment — the Kindle. Faced with inexpensive, multipurpose tablets such as the iPad, which will be able to consume content from multiple sources including Amazon itself, consumer interest in the Kindle will fade in

March 22, 2010 :: "The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), in an email to members Friday, reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for the month of January, 2010 rose 261 percent to $31.9 million from the same period a year ago..."

March 12, 2010 :: "...When students register for courses, NYU Bookstores emails them links to the required texts to signal the availability of the books on the CafeScribe eBook platform, making it simple for the student to opt for the digital versions. With CafeScribe, no additional eReader is required to access the eBook, and most titles can be downloaded to multiple computers...

March 12, 2010 :: "When it began taking pre-orders for the iPad this morning, Apple also published some new details about how the tablet device will function as an e-book reader. It turns out the iPad will read books out loud to you with audio dictation, a controversial feature that caused some trouble for Amazon’s Kindle last year. Also, Apple indicated that you’ll be able to use the iPad to read EPUB titles from sources outside of the iBooks store. The new features are described in the iBooks overvie

March 12, 2010 :: "Apple began taking pre-orders in the U.S. this morning for its new iPad. The tablet will hit American store shelves on April 3. As of 8:30 a.m. ET, first adopters were being invited to reserve their unit ($499-$829 (U.S.) on Apple’s website..."

March 8, 2010 :: "Experts say that 2010 will be a transformative year for technology. They're buzzing about eBooks and eBook readers. Here's why.."

March 2, 2010 :: "As the race to be be ebook format of choice hots up, Penguin is making some bold, experimental bets. These first-look demos of forthcoming books from iPad’s iBook Store, presented by Penguin Books’ CEO John Makinson in London on Tuesday, give an idea how publishers might approach Apple’s tablet…"