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Posts Tagged ‘Books’
A round-up of news bits from all over the magosphere. Twitter launches “Twitter for Newsrooms,” to help guide publishers on the proper and most efficient way to use their services. Longshot — the magazine that is produced over a 48-hour timespan — is preparing a second issue, and using Kickstarter to fund it. Via @twitsplosion [...]
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This article was posted on June 28, 2011 under the category News, and covers the following topics: Bloomberg Businessweek, Books, Creative Review, Digital Single, Kickstarter, Longshot, Richard Turley, Swiss Cheese and Bullets, The Gothamist, Twitter
Warren Ellis recently pointed to this rather interesting post by Brett Jackson that lays out a way to sell works in PDF form for use on the iPad (and iPhone too, but who wants to read PDFs on iPhone) by avoiding the iTunes Store, and more importantly, Apple’s 30% cut and selection process. It’s all [...]
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This article was posted on January 16, 2011 under the category Books, Comics, News, and covers the following topics: Books, Brett Jackson, Comics, iPad, iPhone, PDF, The Not .99 Method, Warren Ellis
So far most ebook readers — iBooks, Kindle, etc. — have been text affairs, forcing picture-heavy books, like children’s books, to make their way to the iPad in the form of individual apps. Well, time to make sure you have the new update to iBooks (released today), since it adds a few new functions, including [...]
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This article was posted on December 16, 2010 under the category Books, News, and covers the following topics: Books, Children's Books, iBooks, iBookstore, Kindle, PDF
No Layout is a new site that does quite the opposite, meaning it’s actually all about layouts, and providing a service that lets you view an amazing collection of indie magazines in any browser, including iPhone and iPad. No Layout is a digital library for independent publishers, focusing on art books and fashion magazines. It [...]
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This article was posted on December 12, 2010 under the category Books, News, Print, and covers the following topics: Books, Browser, Indie, iPad, iPhone, No Layout, Print
Now this is a very cool idea for an iPad book-related app: In 1966 British artist Tom Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques thereby creating an entirely new version. He titled his altered book A Humument. The first version [...]
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This article was posted on November 15, 2010 under the category Books, and covers the following topics: App, Books, iPad, Technology, The Humument App, Tom Philips
The Kindle app for iPad has just received an update, and it adds a feature I’ve long wanted: When you read in landscape mode, it now shows up as two columns. So far, it’s one of the main reasons I preferred reading books in iBooks, because having two columns like that (or two paperback-like pages) [...]
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This article was posted on October 7, 2010 under the category News, and covers the following topics: App, Books, iBooks, iPad, Kindle, Technology
Some more interesting musings by Warren Ellis in regards to digital comics, this time using the success of his free-to-read online web comic FREAKANGELS as an example. Now combine this with iPad delivery, and you have a strong case for comic creators making the move to digital-mostly, with maybe the additions of printed collections for [...]
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This article was posted on September 27, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Books, Comics, Comixology, Digital Comics, FREAKANGELS, Image Comics, iPad, Technology, The Walking Dead, Warren Ellis
If you haven’t watched it yet, do take the time to take a look at the conceptual video IDEO has put together, presenting three possible experiences that digital books on a tablet could offer. It’s pretty interesting stuff, and although most comments seem to be excited about the first example (“Nelson”) — which is sort [...]
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This article was posted on September 22, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Books, Conspiracy for Good, IDEO, Technology, Tim Kring, Transmedia
I rather like Nick Bilton‘s tech coverage for The New York Times — he runs the Bits blog — and this week he has a new book out called I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works. I quite want to read the book, but the reason I bring it up here is [...]
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This article was posted on September 20, 2010 under the category Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: App, Books, I Live in the Future, iPad, iPhone, New York Times, Nick Bilton, Technology
Good news for those of us who can’t afford the beautiful — but $80 — Designing Obama book by Scott Thomas, which covers how design was brilliantly used during the Obama campaign (Thomas was the campaign’s design director). The project was funded through Kickstarter earlier this year, and with the print version now shipping, we [...]
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This article was posted on September 13, 2010 under the category Books, Uncategorized, and covers the following topics: Books, Designing Obama, iPad, Kickstarter, Scott Thomas, Technology