e-content
The future of the e-book might be a… book?
Check out this amazing hybrid creation from Manolis Kelaidis that combines a traditional book over-printed with conductive ink. Manolis presented his project blueBook at the O’Reilly TOC conference this week and is receiving rave reviews.
From Andrea Laue:
He asked the audience if, upon encountering an obscure reference or foreign word on the page of a [...]
Long Tail’s Chris Anderson on “Free” at O’Reilly TOC
Jeff Gomez, writing at one of my favorite and thought-provoking e-content blogs Print Is Dead, has a great article covering Chris Anderson’s speech at the O’Reilly TOC conference entitled “FREE: The Economics of Abundance and the Price of Zero.”
Anderson discusses several ways he and his publisher are considering making aspects of his upcoming book free, [...]
O’Reilly Forges Ahead with New E-Content Initiative
Tim has announced O’Reilly is now offering books on a per chapter basis. That is you can buy an entire e-book, or just the chapter(s) you want, and it appears they will be rolling it out across their entire catalog. Tim likens this development to the music industry shift away from albums and [...]
What Should an e-Book Be?
Yesterday, as part of my Suggested Reading I posted a link to a great post at one of my favorite programming blogs, Coding Horror. The post is generating a lot of conversation about technology books, and in this case the books are 2 programming titles - one of which makes use of color in its [...]
