Sony’s flawed Reader launch in Germany
Saturday, February 28th, 2009On the backdrop of Sony’s e-reader launch in Germany on March 11th I was asked to review it for rbb-TV yesterday. For all non-German readers of this post: Amazon’s Kindle is not yet available in Germany and Amazon is really secretive about the reasons and when it finally plans to launch. Rumour has it that [...]
Posted in Authors & Publishing, books | 8 Comments »Tags: books, DRM, ebook, Publishing, reading, sony, strategy
Books to read before you die
Saturday, July 12th, 2008There are always so many books I want to read but every time I finally find some time I’ve forgotton all about them again. To help you select the next must-read we’ve compiled a list of must-read-lists. Put them on your quillp-wishlist and get even better suggestions of must-read books directly from your friends by [...]
Posted in books | 10 Comments »Tags: books, lists, reading, recommendations
How to read a book
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Our closed beta is humming along nicely and the first quillpers seem to have a lot of fun stacking up their virtual libraries and browsing their closest library match’s libraries for new book ideas. In just one day (actually in just an hour of one day) Katja and Marcel have taken us by storm, dwarfing our libraries which [...]
Posted in Announcement | No Comments »Tags: beta, books, Fun, reading
Closed beta - here we come
Friday, June 27th, 2008Over the last couple of months everybody here has put in crazy hours to turn quillp from an idea into reality. In the next couple of days we will be starting to send out invitations for our closed beta - on a small scale for now to test the performance and to get rid of [...]
Posted in Announcement | No Comments »Tags: beta, books, libraries, reading, recommendations