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Friday, November 05, 2010
Blog - The Bookish Blog says:
Maybe all the talk of ereading devices just reinforces an artificial barrier to entry. Maybe you should be able to get to your bookshelf from any computer anywhere, without software. Maybe DRM is just an occasional password prompt. Maybe there’s no such thing as an ebook file. Maybe there’s nothing to download. Maybe the best ereader is the one you have with you.
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Posted on 05 Nov 2010 around 6pm •
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Booksquare says:
I think we all know what the publisher of today looks like. The hierarchy and positions have become comfortable, established. Sort of like really nice flannel pajamas. That’s not to say nothing ever evolves; I mean, who wears the same pair of pajamas forever? And, if you talk to publishing people, you know those flannel pajamas are threadbare in parts, have a few holes, yet remain too familiar to abandon.
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Posted on 22 Oct 2010 around 9pm •
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Wired News says:
Adobe has released an embeddable video player that shows HTML5 native video in browsers that support it, and falls back to Flash in browsers that don't. It's cross-browser and cross-platform, so it works on iPhones, iPads and other devices that don't support Flash.
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Friday, September 10, 2010
TOC Combined Feed : Tools of Change for Publishing says:
Although the DRM-free EPUB files in our ebook bundles are compatible with many reading systems for print disabled customers, many readers prefer the DAISY format that Bookshare provides, and either don't qualify for access via Bookshare, or would prefer to pay for the ebooks. Through a collaboration with Bookshare, today we've started making DAISY files available within our ebook bundles on oreilly.com ...
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Pixels and Ink says:
Mike Rankin from InDesignSecrets.com has made some neat little apps using AppleScript for zipping and unzipping ePub, Docx, Indl, and Fla files on Mac computers. These file types are based on the zip file, so they can easily be zipped open with an archive utility (just change the file extension to .zip).
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Posted on 08 Sep 2010 around 9am •
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