As a hint of what may be the book of the future, London’s Daily Express reported the other day that a Dutch firm is publishing an art book made of glass and plastic which will stand higher than a man. Since it obviously will be too big for shelves built for, say paperback, pocket books, [...]
Who’s Boss–Man or Electricity?
People are always spiriting new devices into the house and all of them seem to depend on this apparently tireless jinni who abides inside the walls somewhere.
What next? Someday they will come up with an electric book that can read you “A Tale of Two Cities.” If you’re bored, you can push [...]
Want to convert from Word to ePub? These tools aren’t a magic bullet, but they should be helpful to digital publishing developers.
Paul Norton from Adobe has contributed a new software suite to the epub-tools project hosted on Google Code. The Java library provides tools to convert from an impressive number of formats: [...]
COMPUTERS, many of their advocates used to say, would eliminate books, magazines and newspapers. Instead of slumping in the easy chair with an ugly lump of wood pulp, tomorrow’s readers would sit erect, alert and jut-jawed, before a video screen, scanning all the news of all the world, or plugged in to the entire contents [...]
It’s been five hours and I’m already sick of talking about the Stanza acquisition. You too? Let’s talk about the future.
[Dr. Whitney's] first suggestion was the electric book reader — a dream at least as old as Bellamy’s “Looking Backward,” but not fully realized by the present phonographic machines.
“The elementary apparatus for this [...]
O’Reilly has posted video from my session with Keith Fahlgren on e-reading devices.
Please enjoy my despair at the beginning as all the wireless-enabled readers interfere with the microphone.
It might be useful to follow along with the slides in the latter half of my talk, when the camera doesn’t show them.
Finnish joins German, Danish and English as fully-translated languages on Bookworm. Thank you Jussi Träskilä!
I can’t say enough how thrilled I am that so many people have kindly volunteered to do this work. In addition to providing the translations themselves, the volunteers have been invaluable in improving the clarity and accuracy of the site’s [...]
Bookworm is now available in Danish! Thank you Marie Bilde Rasmussen!
For more information on translating Bookworm, see the post on O’Reilly labs or join the Bookworm translators’ list.
Bookworm is now available in German!
Bookworm will switch to your preferred language automatically if it is available, or you can manually set your language by updating your user profile.
Thank you to Jens Quade for his initial work in internationalizing Bookworm and especially to Michael Wiedmann for heroically translating the remainder of the site.
Danish, Spanish and [...]
There’s been some healthy discussion, instigated by Mike Cane, about whether ePub can provide a visually-appealing reading experience. I recommend the related discussion on TeleRead, especially the comments.
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on, but my feeling is that it reduces down to two statements:
Reading systems need to fully support HTML/CSS. Realistically this means [...]