Wednesday Links: 1-13-10

By Sean Clark, on January 13th, 2010

Nico covered a lot of ereader news last week thanks to CES, but there’s still stuff worth looking at. Samsung is jumping in the pool with a competant competent looking entry. You can buy an Alex at Borders, eventually (and for $400), as well as buy Borders on Alex. The Liquivista is a color ereader that avoides LCD. The Skiff can bend, and the Cool-er doesnt want to be left behind. Rumors of the Apple Slate (or whatever it will be called) are still everywhere. The COPIA uses Linux (and this news site doesn’t proof their headlines). The enTourage eDGe has a few too many capital letters oddly placed, but the merging of tablet and ereader is interesting, though it looks a bit clunky. And please, let’s not allow the moniker “dualbook” to catch on. This week’s nominee for dumbest ereader name: Ubiq’s QuokkaPad.
In ebooks, the Bible goes high-tech with Glo. Apparently the Kama Sutra was the most pirated ebook of 2009. This is a tad confusing since it is available freely in public domain. I wonder which version(s) they counted. Project Gutenberg released their 2009 stats. Blio seems like a cool bit of software I’d like to try out.
Check out this short short by our good buddy Justine Tal Goldberg, from WriteByNight.
Here’re this weeks videos. The second is brought to you by Mark McGwire’s admission of the obvious; the first is just too weird not to share.