Archive for March, 2009
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Since the announcement by Apple last week of new iPhone OS software that will become available in June, publishers Adam Hodgkin and Mike Shatzkin have been having an interesting dialog about the future of the eBook market, and how iPhone 3.0 will affect the competition between Amazon, Apple, and Google. ...
Posted in Mobile, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | No Comments »
Friday, March 13th, 2009
A couple of recent commentaries, excerpted below, suggest that the best sort of books for eBooks are ones that are intended to be read linearly, navigating through pages consecutively (i.e. most notably fiction). Both observers say that books whose usability is increased by flipping back and forth from one section ...
Posted in Navigation, Pageturners, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks, kindle | 2 Comments »
Friday, March 13th, 2009
In a recent posting at O'Reilly Radar, Linda Stone discusses recent comments by Brewster Kahle and Robert Darnton on the Google Book Search Settlement. This is especially valuable for its talk about the orphan books problem, discussed by Kahle, as Stone reports, and in comments by Thomas Lord and Tim ...
Posted in Copyright, Google Book Search, Libraries, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Google CEO Eric Schmidt's comments on health/medicine in a recent wide-ranging interview by Charlie Rose have not gotten much attention, so I'm excerpting them here. First, Schmidt discusses Google Flu Trends:
[For clarity I've mixed a few words from Rose's questions with Schmidt's comments]
There are many [positive] things that we can ...
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
A notable feature of the KIndle iPhone app that was announced today is that it has color, unlike Amazon's Kindle device. The most complete comments I've found on this are at CNET.com, written by Nicole Lee (whose interest in comic books gives her good reason to look for color!) Her ...
Posted in Color, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 5 Comments »
