Archive for the ‘eBooks’ Category
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Poking around in Google Similar Images, I've found examples that give indications of how the system works. I've put several of these together in a Flickr set, from which the example below is taken.
The top image in each of the pairs below ("Full size image") is a choice from the ...
Posted in Flickr, Google, Image Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | 5 Comments »
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Interesting thought by Mike Shatzkin on the unlikeliness of pictures in eBooks anytime soon (bold added):
The proliferation of formats, devices, screen sizes, and delivery channels means that the idea of “output one epub file and let the intermediaries take it from there” is an unworkable strategy. [Here's one reason why:] ...
Posted in Human input, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
Friday, April 17th, 2009
Ben Lorica's excellent post at O'Reilly Radar (Waiting for the Billionth Download) is full of details about iPhone apps. A bit overshadowed is the growth in the Books category. I've done some clipping and rearranging on one of Lorica's charts to bring this out -- Note that the Rate-of-Change for ...
Posted in PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone, kindle | 2 Comments »
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 | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 »
Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
When a link is clicked to a specific page in GBS Mobile, the page that always opens is the entry page for the book. There doesn't seem to be a way to link successfully to specific pages. I've tried this in several examples, and have had the same experience in ...
Posted in Google, Google Book Search, Mobile, Navigation, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks, iPhone | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Mike Cane hits the target on color eBooks ...
Truly, the first device that can do color eBooks will change things forever ... There are three recent signs — as well as a total wild card — that point to possible dramatic changes in the eBook-reading hardware landscape. ...
... The first ...
Posted in Color, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks | 1 Comment »
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Peter Suber, at Open Access News, has a good article on Google's recent announcement that they are now OCR'ing scanned PDF documents so that they become searchable text documents in Google Web Search.
Scroll down especially to Suber's comments, in which he describes the background to this Google advance, which is ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PDF, PicsNo, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
Friday, October 31st, 2008
A little-discussed but valuable part of Google Books is the About this book page. This is sort of like an enhanced card catalog view of the book -- In addition to standard bibliographic data, it also has a variety of other useful information. For books with pictures an especially valuable ...
Posted in Google Book Search, PicsYes, Uncategorized, eBooks | No Comments »
