This isn’t a full review of the device. In particular, I don’t cover purchasing books or reading PDB or PDF books at all. I was mainly interested in evaluating the Nook as a general-purpose ePub reader. Adobe Mobile SDK Like other e-ink devices,...

Here are some frankly terrible iPhone camera photos I took as I struggled with unboxing the Nook, which appears to be shipped in some kind of impenetrable force field. Seriously, it took me 8 minutes just to open the thing between the first and last...

This is really funny if you get the joke, and still a nice style if you don’t. Thanks Kirk Biglione!

Authors and publishers alike are beginning to think more about the interactive possibilities of fiction. The good news is that it’s not necessary to invent interactive storytelling from scratch. Computer games have been exploring this territory since...

I’ve examined all the listings in the DRM-free publishers index and: Categorized the publishers, broadly, by genre Indicated whether their ebooks are available as ePub Both tasks were surprisingly hard: many of these publishers accept works from a...