Catholic Tech Talk

Are e-books sustainable? Can they replace print?

eReaders are definitely a hot item and their are plenty of options.  Barnes and Noble hit the eReader world with the Nook® in 2009.   Now called “Nook 1st Edition”, featured eInk paper0like display and a small LCD touch control screen at the bottom.  This past month, Barnes and Noble revamped the original Nook® and released [...]

As a career specialty retail manager mostly within the media and electronics industries, I’ve lived through every media transition so far.  Music, movies, and now books.  As each one comes, it seems the speculations and arguments are coming straight from some secret script kept for just such occasions.   You have your “doomsday” groups which scream [...]

As Catholics, we love to read and there a lot of great books that have been written on the faith as well.  eReaders and ebooks are getting a lot of attention, and if you’re finding it confusing . . . I can understand.  I read a lot of articles about ereaders in particular that are often full [...]

eBooks are getting a ton of attention and are seeing explosive growth rates in terms of demand in the bookselling world.  Quarter over quarter and year over year, they are growing at rates of almost 200% amongst readers of all ages.  Not only are there huge benefits for readers, there are exciting new no/low-cost publishing [...]

This was expected, but it’s happened a bit sooner than I thought — concrete proof that e-readers are taking over. In case you hadn’t heard, according to Amazon, Kindle books are now outselling hardcovers. In a statement, Amazon says that, “over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has [...]

I’m close to making a purchase decision on an eReader, specifically the Sony PRS-300 (Pocket Edition). It looks to be just the right size for me and the right price. Have a couple questions for folks with an eReader… Do the Sony products allow you to ‘subscribe’ to a blog somehow? Would love to be [...]