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The Kindle Fire ignites excitement among consumers, but will it find a place among medical tablets?

Oct 03, 2011 by
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Comparison of Amazon Kindle models, including the new Kindle touch and Kindle Fire tablet, and how the Kindle Fire can be used in medical education and practice

Blio Reader is poised to be the e-book of choice for medical textbook publishers – Part 2

Jun 22, 2010 by
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In part one of this series, we reviewed the Blio business model and how Blio has strategically catered to the needs of book publishers as well as readers. In this post, we will review what we know about the technology and functionality of Blio Reader and how it might enhance digital textbooks to move closer towards their potential as a interactive teaching tools. Excerpt from part 1 of this series: Blio reader is a fascinating digital publication platform which appears [Read more]

Blio Reader promises a digital book revolution for every medical publisher [Part 1]

Jun 16, 2010 by
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The Blio reader is a fascinating digital publication platform, seemingly poised to grow rapidly across multiple devices. Since medical textbooks are such a prime target for digital publishing, one can almost guarantee that the Blio Reader will be how a significant proportion of tomorrow’s medical students and health professionals will be reading. For those not familiar with Blio, we previewed the e-reader a little while ago, at a time when information on the product was scant and many other sites [Read more]