I’l be at Book Expo America starting Friday morning through Sunday. I’m not speaking, just playing tourist, and am especially looking forward to the BEA Tweetup.
If you’ll be at BEA and would like to meet up or help me carry my free books, send me an email.
O’Reilly is announcing today that the in-progress book, Programming Scala, has been released using the Open Feedback Publishing System, a platform I built for them that allows public commenting on digital manuscripts.
Users can comment using the web site, read the entire in-progress text of the book (updated as the authors revise it), or [...]
Slides and notes from my 15-minute presentation at the IDPF Digital Book 2009 conference:
Open-source ePub with Bookworm
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You can also download the slides as a PDF. Licensed Creative-Commons-Attribution.
It was a pretty good event overall although I felt that the main program was much stronger than the workshops (my talk was part [...]
Ignacio Fernández Galván has contributed a set of new logos to highlight DRM-free ePubs. These are a modification of the public domain logos I’ve already released.
There’s a spirited discussion on MobileRead on the topic. (“Maybe it’s just me, but those are really ugly.”)
I’ll be talking about Bookworm on Monday, May 11 at the IDPF Digital Book conference.
I’m also looking forward to meeting people at Book Expo America later this month (and most especially the BEA Tweetup).
Lastly, I’m very excited about BookCamp Toronto. I’ve been to a number of technical unconferences and they are universally great. [...]
The next dozen years will bring the world to the year 2000. What further wonders are lurking in the labs today that will be commonplace when the next century begins?
[...] When you travel, you may carry along an electronic book that opens up to display text on two facing screens. The book’s memory [...]
For skilled cataloging, work that takes intelligence and the best education attainable, the demand is always above the supply. In the library of the future, the free library, the greatest missionary force of the age, there is going to be a great opening for women’s work, too.
I don’t mean by the ideal free library [...]