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Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Mike Cane writes: and I agree
Steve Jobs hates ePub. He hates eBooks.
How can anyone with his refined sense of taste not hate them?
They’re an abomination. A tasteless — and incompetent — techie committee solution to electronic books.
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Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad — Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPad will transform the classroom.
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Kassia Krozser says:
Short answer: nobody knows.
Longer answer: the magic elixir publishers are injecting into ebooks in hopes they will entice people to pay higher prices.
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Friday, January 22, 2010
Wired.com takes a look at the slew of new e-readers set to hit the market over the next few months.
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Tim Bray proposes a new definition. A site which is designed as the primary Web property for a person, place, or thing is a power site if the person, place, or thing has a Wikipedia entry but, in popular search engines, the site ranks above that Wikipedia entry. There aren’t very many.
(Via ongoing.)
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This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
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