“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Beast
The latest artist to benefit from some HTML5 digital wizardry is Laura Marling. She worked with creative agency Studio Juice and artist group Shynola on an “interactive, animated digital poem” called The Beast. It’s a poem based on Marling’s song of the same name, with illustrations from Shynola and a scrolling interface. “The idea of mixed media stuff is quite a new and scary thing to me. It seems a blessing and a curse to have more than one way of taking something on. As always, it’s up to whoever is willing to interpret it as they see fit,” Marling tells Q. “It certainly does relate to the song but it’s a re-appropriation of that thing, what ever it is.”
HTML5 Magnetic Poetry Wall
Create a poem or drag an image onto the fridge.
Things an ebook can’t do #28
Probably the best Fahrenheit 451 book cover design ever made
According to designer Elizabeth Perez, who is a student at The Austin Creative Department, “The book’s spine is screen-printed with a matchbook striking paper surface, so the book itself can be burned.”
Like ‘slow food’ sometimes ‘slow learning’ is best way to go. ~eP
Shaza the crazy book person decided the existing ebook readers are not sexy enough so she decided to design a sexy one herself.
Yes Shaza, we need more sexy ebook readers. ~ eP
Confirmed: Len Riggio Wants Split B&N & Buy B&N Retail Stores
…But more importantly, Riggio doesn’t see that that Nook Media has much of a future – from the viewpoint of a guy who built a retail chain, anyway. Considering that he famously doesn’t even use his own hardware, Nook Media is probably better off without him.
Love this! (No second language knowledge needed, it speaks for itself) ~ eP
Qual você prefere, livros ou e-books? eu ainda prefiro livros
GrabMyBooks - The web as a book
A Firefox add-on that allows you to grab content from the web and easily convert it in an epub / mobi file fully compatible with your e-book reader!
A Better Publishing Model
Dmitry Fadeyev proposes an Web-based Newstand:
What’s needed is a marketplace much like Apple’s Newsstand, but for the Web.
Add that with Ryan Singer’s comments about a Movable Type for iOS, and I think we’re thinking in the right direction.
Somewhere in the middle, that allows publications to write their articles in HTML, like they already know how, and get their “issues” delivered in the background and with subscriptions, on iOS, Android, and any other platform that becomes popular. And the content is still available on a website, for those people who want to use a traditional computer.
