Entries Tagged as ‘e-reading’

10 February 2009

New Kindle

New Kindle is out.
Via Three Percent.

26 January 2009

When translation is a further problem…

I’ve been talking now and then about the question of diversity of translations in the world today. Sometimes we need to take an step back and give some tought to our own langague. I’m sure the problem faced by the Spanish-speaking authors in Latin America discussed on the Hermano Cerdo (in Spanish, sorry) is not [...]

15 May 2008

Laroussepedia

It’s seems that the French publishing Larousse house will try to compete with Wikipedia. They made their encyclopedic content access for free and also open the possibility for the user to contribute. But unlike the Wikipedia, only identified users are allowed to contribute. Great news for the French speakers and I hope the company decides [...]

19 March 2008

BookLamp

“BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music. Do you like Stephen King’s It, but thought it was too long? The technology behind BookLamp allows you to find books that are written with a similar [...]

25 January 2008

"People don’t read anymore", according to Steve Jobs

Read here.
Via Booktwo.org

25 January 2008

"People don’t read anymore", according to Steve Jobs

Via Booktwo.org

4 January 2008

LG.Philips LCD Develops 14.3-Inch Color E-Paper Display
Via Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0

4 January 2008

LG.Philips LCD Develops 14.3-Inch Color E-Paper Display
Via Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0

5 December 2007

Adobe, Yahoo Create PDF Ad Program

“…the aim of the project, according to Adobe’s Kurt Garbe, is to give publishers a new option to make money from digital content contained in PDF files.”
Via Publishing News

4 December 2007

Antipodes

The reading revolution is already happening, but not here. In Japan Half of The Top Selling Books are Written in Mobile Phones.
Via booktwo