April 2011
March 2011
Open: India Has its Own eBook Reader →
phoot3:
EC Media has launched “Wink”, which they claim as “India’s first e-book reader”. We have to recognise Indian is not only the powerhouse of digital publishing today and itself is starting to embrace its output. We may think of India as third world but in many ways it is now casting that…
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“If there are enough eyeballs on eBooks, it can be a very effective tool to...”
– Filmmaker Mahesh Dattani on how e-Books can be a boon to the world of cinema too.
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gigelorum:
Snuggies and ebooks; totally lifted from Star Trek.
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Dual Screen Pocket Edge →
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“Instead of circulating microfiche like books, tomorrow’s libraries will...”
– Joseph Becker in The First Book of Information Science. United States Atomic Energy Commission Office of Information Services, 1973. p. 80
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“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– - Nabakov, possibly just before booting up his Kindle…
(via excessivebookshelf)
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“The next thing might be eBook market and don’t underestimate the region’s...”
– Rob Jones on mobile application usage and download in the Arab world: “50% is from Nokia, 30% from Apple phones. Full Article
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“I think it would be good if a few people like me spiked the future, punctured it...”
– Bestselling UK children’s author Julia Donaldson on turning down ebooks of her work.
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Shift Happened - one reader's experience with a... →
Turn your Kindle into a universal translator with... →
Finally I can read those damn pesky untranslated french quotes in all those free pre-1900 ebooks I downloaded from Gutenberg, and Google 2 years ago…
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“Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous...”
– stanley elkin (via quellequaintrelle)
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Codex Digitalis and The Changing Bodies of Books →
co·dex (KOH-deks):
1. a quire of manuscript pages held together by stitching: the earliest form of book, replacing the scrolls and wax tablets of earlier times.
2. a manuscript volume, usually of an ancient classic or the Scriptures.
3. Archaic . a code; book of statutes.
digi·talis (DIJ’ih-TAL’is):
A drug that strengthens the contraction of the heart muscle, slows the...
Counting to Infinity: A Fantastic Post About... →
tomrk1089:
Which I would subtitle “Why Geeks are Still Often Quite Stupid about the ‘Real World’ “
I was indirectly linked through John Scalzi over at Whatever to a LiveJournal entry on e-publishing and ebook pricing by a Cat Valente. And I have to say, the entire argument resonated with me as being…
“to get stuff from here to there, and from then to now. The author communicates...”
– Margaret Atwood on ebooks, marginalia, and the Bible as non-linear storytelling (via austinkleon)
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