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14/8/08 Are books applications?
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing blog has a nice series of posts on books as ebooks as applications: Linking Books with the Web-Way of Thinking Treating Ebooks Like Software A Big Boost to Books as Apps? I just want to voice something that has been bothering me a little about this (and given some current projects, may come back to bite me): Books are not applications, or software. They are words. I think there’s a danger inherent in regarding books as something to be run rather than something to be read. This argument is a bit hazy... Read the rest of this post →

20/2/08 Transf(orm)ats
I’m currently reading a book in three formats at once. I’ve got a nice paperback copy for bed and sofa reading. I’ve got an ebook formatted for my mobile phone for tubes and buses. And I’ve got a free audiobook—an MP3 also on my mobile phone—for when I’m cycling along the canal to work in the mornings. (I could also read by email and RSS, if desired). None of this is perfect. The pbook is an old photostat copy – it was cheap, but it’s poorly set, there are a lot... Read the rest of this post →

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Joho the Blog » Digital Differences – a Pew survey 2012/04/21
"88% of American adults have a cell phone, 57% have a laptop, 19% own an e-book reader, and 19% have a tablet computer; about six in ten adults (63%) go online wirelessly with one of those devices. Gadget ownership is generally correlated with age, education, and household income, although some devices—notably e-book readers and tablets—are as popular or even more popular with adults in their thirties and forties than young adults ages 18-29."
Worldreader: Kindles and E-books in Schools 2012/04/19
"Worldreader gives kids in the developing world access to digital books. Using e‑readers loaded with thousands of local and international e-books, we provide children the books they want and need, so they can improve their lives."
Amazon at the London Book Fair | Melville House Books 2012/04/19
"Often, it feels like the foreign publisher is saying to me: HELP ME, AMERICAN PERSON WHO HAS BEEN DEALING WITH THIS MYSTERIOUSLY VICIOUS COMPANY FOR A FEW YEARS ALREADY. "Sometimes, it fells like they are saying: YOU BETTER TELL ME HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS, YOU AMERICAN FUCKER WHO DID NOTHING ABOUT THIS BULLSHIT WHEN YOU HAD A CHANCE."
The Next Time Someone Says the Internet Killed Reading Books, Show Them This Chart - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic 2012/04/07
E-Book backup : Jesse England 2012/04/07
"E-book backup is a physical, tangible, human readable copy of an electronically stored novel."
Will Hachette Be The First Big-6 Publisher To Drop DRM On E-Books? | paidContent 2012/03/31
DRM “doesn’t stop anyone from pirating,” ... “There’s a misconception that somehow the digital format of books has made piracy increase, or become logarithmically more serious. But piracy was always very easy to do, because scanning a physical copy of a book [takes] a matter of minutes. A physical book doesn’t have DRM on it." - Hachette SVP digital Maja Thomas

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