Episode 92 – Year in Review 2012 with Joanna Cabot
Episode 92 – Year in Review 2012 with Joanna Cabot
Special Guest
- Joanna Cabot of Teleread
News of 2012
January
- iBooks Author released
- Amazon releases Kindle Format 8 tools and info.
- IDPF website now hosts an ePub3 validator.
Febraury
- Nook tablet released
- Readium announced
- Apple updates the iBooks Author EULA to make it clear you just can’t use the *.ibooks file.
March
- Kindle makes inroads in Japan
- KDP select hits 100,00 title mark
- The new iPad
- Encyclopedia Britannica stops printing. It’s Okay. Really.
- Pottermore finally releases Harry Potter eBooks. Interesting sales approach, with some new kinds of connections to the eBook retailers.
April
- Amazon released an update to KindleGen that allows the use of display:none in Mobipocket CSS
- Google Books end retail partner program
- Nook Glowlight released
- KF8 support comes to Kindle Touch
- DOJ files antitrust suit against Apple, Hachette Book Group, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group, HarperCollins, and Macmillan
May
June
- K4 and Kindle for iOS get full KF8 support
- Kobo announces writing life
- BISG releases ePub3 support grid.
- Ingram announces ePub3 support in Vitalsource
- eBook sales surpass hardcover
- Microsoft Surface announced
July
- Kobo devices get interface update
- Penguin purchases Author Solutions
- Qualcomm suspending Mirasol screen development, moving to a licensing model
- The Nexus 7 comes in
- New Editor-in-Chief at Teleread: Dan Eldridge
August
- EBN actually does 4 episodes
- Sony releases the PRS-T2. Not really amazing. Still too expensive
- FAA starts taking comments about Kindle on airplane use
September
- Kobo releases new devices: Kobo Mini, Kobo Glo, and Kobo Arc. However, we have still not seen them in the US
http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/exclusive-kobo-glo-kobo-mini-and-kobo-arc-announced
http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/hands-on-review-of-the-kobo-arc/ - Amazon announces new Kindle devices
- Amazon has updated the Kindle 3 (Keyboard) with KF8 support
- B&N launching its own video service to compete with Amazon and Apple
- B&N announces the Nook HD and the Nook HD+
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/09/26/barnes-noble-launches-the-first-family-friendly-media-tablet/ - J. K. Rowling’s new book had some major formatting issues
http://paidcontent.org/2012/09/27/j-k-rowlings-new-book-on-kindle-literally-unreadable/
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-public-outcry-over-j-k-rowlings-first-adult-novel-and-the-important-lesson-publishers-can-learn-from-it
October
- EBN Fail – one episode
- Google and publishers settle in book scanning case
- Amazon Kindle DX quietly killed off
- Amazon rumored to be in talks to buy Texas Instruments’ OMAPS CPU unit
- Amazon launches Kindle Whispercast
- Apple press announcement: iPad4, iPad Mini, updates to iBooks (3.0) and iBooks Author
- Nexus 4 phone and Nexus 10 tablet released. Nexus 7 updated with new specs and options
November
- CEA says tablet ownership has doubled in one year
- Powell’s Books signs up with Kobo to replace Google eBook store
- Amazon tests out monthly Prime membership
- Illegal to break DRM in Canada
December
- Dual-screen phone released in Russia
- Amazon launches Kindle store in China, iOS and Android only
- Penguin settles with DOJ
- Helicon’s epub 3 reading app
Predictions
- Joanna: International market get RESPECT; Kindle Free Time Unlimited (subscription service) take off; Retina Display iPad Mini; apps maturing
- Chris: if you are not comfortable with ePub 3 format you will be left behind; eInk will not die out, will continue to see them throughout the year, upgrades to the devices
- Toby: Major eInk color screen released (same as last year) — reflective, not the new low-power LCD
- Joshua: eBook creation advancements – ID 6.5, still no major upgrades like index support; More tools like Vook; No massive device improvements; Sony going down, next couple of years out of ebook space; Kindle 1 (USA);
Random Fedback Tweet of the Week
- @__mharrison__: @jtallent (just listened to the latest podcast) FYI, Kobo already supports JS (in epub2) #eprdctn
- @__mharrison__: @rcgordon @jtallent @eprdctn I guess I should qualify my statement: JS works on the Kobo Android app… #eprdctn
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