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Video posted for ‘Survey of Current E-Readers’

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.

Bookworm Mobile + Stanza integration

Bookworm Mobile now takes advantage of the Stanza linking protocol. When viewing Bookworm on your iPhone,  “Read in Stanza” links now appear on the library list and at the bottom of each book page. Clicking the arrow will launch the book in Stanza and add it to your Stanza catalog.

I’m excited about this because it [...]

New release of Bookworm: improved user experience and public content

Bookworm’s public home page (the one you see if you’re not logged in) has a new look. This is just one of many changes in the largest update since the site launched in July 2008.

Much more public content and help

When I conceived of Bookworm it was largely a way for me and other developers to [...]

Call me “ePub”

It’s fantastic to see more and more publishers beginning to distribute books in ePub format, but call the format by its real name!
I’ve seen “ePub in disguise” in a few places, most recently this release from Pan Macmillan:

If you click on the arrow, the site brings up a very long page explaining what all the [...]