12 days ago
deusx : The Digital Book: Paper's Last Hurrah - "While Sony Readers and Amazon Kindles take to the scene, one paper lover, in celebration of the Blood on Paper exhibition (something we've never heard of but have a pretty good idea what it's about), released this USB copy of The New Machi
# copy
12 month ago
wearehugh : Dear Jeff Bezos (one-week Kindle review) « Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger - just once, i wish a device would fail for MY reasons. but no, this one will fail because it just plain sucks.
# copy
12 month ago
Andy Baio : Mark Pilgrim's The Future of Reading - the only Kindle link worth pointing to; how can Amazon get MP3s so right but e-books so wrong?
deusx : The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - "When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this."
nelson : The future of reading - Scalpel-sharp critique of Amazon's e-book implementation
# copy
12 month ago
wearehugh : Nobody likes E-books but me [dive into mark] - i don't self-link often, but with amazon "kindle" in the news, this is worth a second read. 6 years later, i have nothing to add.
Isofarro : Nobody likes E-books but me - Mark notes that major publishers have twisted ebooks by removing the benefits of them, and then they wonder why no-one buys them. Mark describes the three ways major publishers have destroyed the value of ebooks. I'm interested in Amazon's soon-to-be-rele
# copy
14 month ago
deusx : Seth's Blog: You should write an ebook - "How much did it cost you to write the most popular ebook ever and to reach those millions of people and to do a promotion that drove an expensive hardcover to #5 on Amazon and #4 in Japan and led to translation deals in dozens of countries and plent
# copy
16 month ago
gleuschk : share-ebooks dot blogspot dot com - a bizarrely varied bunch of (almost certainly pirated) e-books for download. found while looking for "The Heart of Cohomology", which looks like a fun little book.
# copy
21 month ago
deusx : The Curious Mind | Articles / Classic Texts in Computer Science
# copy
28 month ago
deusx : 5 excellent places to find DRM-free science fiction - cebidae: the blog of david dean - "Whatever you do, don’t buy DRM’d ebooks. You are just ripping yourself off in the long run." Amen to that. I've bought a few ebooks with DRM, and it was all a waste.
# copy
32 month ago
deusx : if:book: sophie is coming! - "Sophie is an open-source platform for creating and reading electronic books for the networked environment."
# copy
40 month ago
kellan : "It's like iTunes for eBooks" - Rails app blending the line between client and server apps #
# copy
40 month ago
ricmac : Google Makes Change to Google Print - "The biggest change is that Google will allow publishers who are members of the Google Print program to explicity tell Google what library books they want digitized."
# copy
40 month ago
ricmac : Aaron Swartz: Google Sells Out Users to Publishers - "Google won't even scan any book copyright holders ask them not to, even though doing so is perfectly legal."
# copy
40 month ago
kayodeok : Google Blog: Making books easier to find - Today I’d like to mention two new features that reflect these discussions and which we feel will considerably improve both programs
ricmac : Google Print: The Art of Positive Spin - "Making books easier to find"
# copy
41 month ago
ricmac : The Librie as a Games Machine - Dave re-makes Sony's eBook Reader into a games machine.
jkottke : Thoughts on turning the Sony Libre into a "Universal Game Board"
# copy
42 month ago
deusx : Accelerando! - Accelerando available for download - "This free ebook edition is made available by kind consent of my publishers, Ace and Orbit, under a Creative Commons license with certain restrictions attached." Hooray! A book to read on my Visor until I get the paper edition!
# copy
43 month ago
ricmac : Browse - a new experiment in book publishing? - Via Om Malik. Haven't yet grokked it, but it's some kind of open collaborative book publishing service. Om called it "the next evolution of the print-on-demand type services". Hmmm, have to look into it...
# copy
47 month ago
ricmac : David Rothman comments on 2004 eBook sales figures on Open eBook Forum - "Total unit sales were 419,962 or less than what the biggest best-sellers would have individually achieved in the p-book area."
# copy47 month ago
ricmac : Top Selling eBooks of 2004 Announced (the top 4 are all Dan Brown books! He's the author of Da Vinci Code, which I haven't read and probably never will...yes I am a book snob) - "A significant percentage of the eBook bestsellers for 2004 can also be found on year-end print bestseller lists indicating eBook purchasing is following the diversity of mainstream reading habits."
# copy47 month ago
ricmac : TeleRead update on the open eBook format OpenReader (there's been a lot of talk about it, but everybody's waiting on something more concrete to support and play with) - "What is the dev schedule of OpenReader? Depends on when development money comes."
# copy
