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September 2011

“The challenge for ebook designers and developers is to think less about “layout”...”

– Liza Daly, Owner, Threepress Publishing, to Jenn Webb of O’Reilly Radar. At its best, digital design is choreography. (via futurejournalismproject)

The Future of Books: A Dystopian Timeline →

Michael Hart, Who? He Started It All: eBooks,... →

namenloseleute: ”Learning is its own reward. Nothing I can say is better than that.” More than any one that I have followed for over a decade, Michael Hart, the father of eBooks, had not been matched in intellectual curiosity, frugality, and sheer love of books for learning and sharing them….

What's in a name? The New Yorker on The Kindle... →

In case you were under a rock - All you need to... →

Are you a social-reader or asocial-reader? →

For years, web companies such as GoodReads, Shelfari, and LibraryThing offered a platform for readers to discuss what they were reading. As time progressed, Facebook, Twitter and other social media apps proved just as viable a forum for book chat and conversation. Now, with e-books, the social functionality is integrated right into the e-reading app itself. But does this really matter? Is all the...

Apple makes machines. Amazon provides content. In a convergent world it is not how good the TV is, it is how good the programs are.

Wait, has anyone heard a rumor of an Amazon...

Tomorrow’s Amazon Fire Tablet announcement will be plastered everywhere and tons of info will flow out faster than a DRM free Stieg Larsson ebook so I see no point in saying too much about it today. You probably know all you need to know at the moment anyway. Kindle books, video watching, apps, cloud etc…. the only thing I don’t think too many have spoken about yet is enhanced...

HTML5 Digital Comic →

Here is an interesting HTML5 digital comic from Disney that is both promising and disappointing. Each panel flows separate and has multiple layers giving it depth and movement. An audio soundtrack keys off panel tags allowing it to match the mood of the story. But overall the comic falls short of being innovative as the text remains embedded and a flat part of the image in each panel, unsearchable...

Kobo May Have A Tablet Of Their Own →

Engadget has discovered a new Kobo device on the FCC site, suggested that the eBook company has a new tablet in the works. Here is more from the tech blog: “ What’s this mystery e-reader? It’s the Kobo Vox, and it just made its debut on the FCC’s site. Is it a reworked version of the relatively recently released Touch Edition? Is it a brand new reader from the company? The device is listed...

Rugged 7-inch Asus Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet... →

According to Impress (Japanese news source) this new Asus tablet boasts a rugged design that allows for drops from heights as great as 76cm, and the tablet is waterproof to IPX4 standards (meaning the tablet is protected against water splashes but don’t drop this tablet in your tub and expect it to be unscathed) and dustproof to IPX5 standards (meaning the tablet is protected against most dust...

Book as Artifact →

With the world of publishing reeling in paradigm shift the future of the physical book has been called to question. In a digital world does physical book have a place? Taschen is one publisher that says and emphatic YES!

The Future of Storytelling vs. The Future of... →

Will "books" take on a new connotation in the...

todaysmusings: If the book you’re reading includes both integrated video and a soundtrack that highlights the specific paragraph you’re reading…is it still a “book?” A recent NYT article highlights new bells and whistles that e-book publishers are adorning the old tried and true “book” with. In e-book form, for instance, Harper Collins notes that the young adult novel The Power of Six might...

Diary of a Mad Aquarius: A book doesn't care how... →

madaquarius: I love my e-reader. There’s something that’s awesome and sort of magical, if you’re the magic loving sort, about being able to carry hundreds of books in my purse. It’s a practical tool for someone like me, who loves reading so much, and who sometimes reads more then one book concurrently….

Anonymous asked: this might be a dumb question but what's a 'conversion house coder'?

Scribner Books: 40 Publishing Buzzwords... decoded... →

scribnerbooks: One Minute Book Reviews has gathered together publishers favorite buzzwords (guilty as charged) and what they really mean… according to industry veterans. Our favorites: “absorbing”: “makes a great coaster” “accessible”: “not too many big words” “acclaimed”: “poorly selling” …

“Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves...”

– J.P. Donleavy (via typowriter)

aliakhairat: Craig Mod writes about Post-Artifact Books & Publishing: Digital’s effect on how we produce, use and consume books. Classic Publishing Two+ years between Idea and Reader A lonely, isolated pre-artifact system. An immutable non-networked artifact. A near non-existant post-artifact system. What is a book, anymore, anyway? We will always debate: the quality of the paper, the...

Library Babel Fish: A college librarian's take on... →

It’s partly a function of the kind of library I work at—undergraduate, residential, small—and partly my skeptical nature, but I still am not convinced we should invest in vast collections of books we don’t choose and don’t really own. So before I market something, I need to be persuaded my community needs it. And so far, there’s no demand….[More]

Gordon Lish does the Ugly Dance →

sadburro: The esteemed author, Godfather of New Fiction and legendary editor of Esquire and Knopf does the Ugly Dance …and the Twist, and Robot. You control him (can anyone really control him?) Click link for a literate new fiction dance party!

Logitech Fold-Up keyboard for the iPad in action.

Free Ulysses eBook in Honor of Banned Book Week →

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

How Self-Published Authors Get Their Covers Right →

Design-it-yourself or hire a pro? Some good basic advice and a few interesting new business models.

Kobo Integrates Social Reading Into Facebook →

SAN FRANCISCO, TORONTO – Sept. 22, 2011 – Today at f8, Facebook’s developer conference, Kobo, a global leader in eReading with over 4.9 million users worldwide, is discussing the next advancement in social eReading that will provide people with the ability to engage in conversations with each other while reading, as well as a Facebook integration that makes it easier for people to feature...

Graphicly brings digital comic book publishing to... →

With the large amount of time people spend of Facebook every month, it’s no wonder that publishers are gravitating towards the giant social network with Facebook apps featuring their content. Digital comic book platform Graphicly is keenly aware of this trend, which is why it launched a new Facebook app Tuesday that lets comic book publishers host their content within the social network.

Comcast launches low-income broadband service →

With getting books into the hands of the poor and underprivileged of the world the e-book reader is only one part of the equation; another part is affordable Internet access—and while broadband access isn’t required for downloading something the size of an e-book, it certainly makes it easier in general. Perhaps in a convergent world our TV providers will become the savior of books by providing...

“The challenge for ebook designers and developers is to think less about “layout”...”

– Liza Daly, Owner, Threepress Publishing, to Jenn Webb of O’Reilly Radar. At its best, digital design is choreography. (via futurejournalismproject)

Mixed Company: Brave New Book World for PBS Media... →

jennyshank: After a drought of journalism pieces (for me, anyway—I used to publish two or three articles a week), everything is appearing this week. Today my essay “Brave New Book World: How Authors Become Entrepreneurs” ran on PBS Media Shift, a website examining the shift from the old media landscape. …

Comme une petite souris: My ereader > your paper... →

littlemousling: What is it with the apologetics, people? I’m not doing that “but it’s okay, I totally love paper books the best!” thing. I don’t. I love my ereader massively, massively more than my paper books, and I’m offloading the latter by the boxful, because they’re a hassle. Paper books are awkward and…

9 Things That Happen When You Read →

A Nobel novelist explores what goes on in a reader’s mind.

How ebooks can't reach the poor, and libraries... →

nocureforcuriosity: Was linked to this lj post through Neil Gaiman’s twitter. It’s a good read. How many of these people do you think have access to an ebook reader? I grew up so far below the poverty line that you couldn’t see it from my window, no matter how clear the day was. My bedroom was an ocean of books. Almost all of them were acquired second-hand, through used bookstores, garage...

In E-Books, Publishers Have Rivals: News Sites →

bibliofeminista: Book publishers are surrounded by hungry new competitors: Amazon, with its steadily growing imprints; authors who publish their own e-books; online start-ups like The Atavist and Byliner. Swiftly and at little cost, newspapers, magazines and sites like The Huffington Post are hunting for revenue by publishing their own version of e-books, either using brand-new content or...

Mobility: Why I'm on board with the eBook... →

ad-venture: I worked at Barnes & Noble for four and half years. I got all the stupid questions like “Um…I saw a book here, like, a week ago….it had a red cover” or “I need the book Mockingbird by Lee Harvey Oswald” (these are true) and winced in pain every time someone asked for the “non-fiction section”. I…