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For as long as there have been e-books, my pals in the font design world have been shuddering at the very thought of reading one. And why? It’s all about the font, baby. As the Wall Street Journal explains, “For typography fans,…
Wish you could read more quickly? There’s an app for that. From Quill & Quire: Boston-based tech company Spritz has developed a technology that replaces digital pages with quick-streaming text, thereby eliminating time-consuming “inefficient eye movements.” According to the company’s website, some…
Despite increasingly strident warnings over the last decade that the physical book is taking a dive, signs that the opposite is true continue to rise. The latest of these voices comes from PolicyMic with an article by Shan Wang called “How Book…
PatentlyApple.com reports that the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple Computers on September 26th that “reveals a new iBook autographing system and more specifically to techniques and systems for embedding autographs in electronic books.” From PatentlyApple: Book…
How could this headline in Good E-Reader not catch your eye? “The Overwhelming Majority of Self-Published eBooks Are Terrible” In a piece about the lack of gatekeepers in the current self-publishing model, Michael Kozlowski writes: At the Writing in a Digital Conference…
It’s interesting that, even though he was a pioneer in getting his books to market electronically, Stephen King has actively delayed e-book versions of his new book, Joyland, from shipping on the book’s June 2013 publication date. From Slashgear: Stephen King is…
It’s news to just about no one at all that digital publishing has taken a heavy toll on many aspects of traditional publishing, but here’s one we hadn’t thought of before. The Economist looks at what may be a death knell for…
Ever since e-books began to assert their dominance, people have been talking about the library of the future: a bookless place about books. And as ill-conceived as the idea will appear to booklovers nearly everywhere, Bexar County, Texas is about to lead…
Big publishers are finding that electronic books are generally more profitable than their print counterparts, according to Paid Content. Here’s the thing, though: since production costs on e-books are fixed and distribution costs pretty much nonexistent on what planet is this news?…
We live in a time when only the largest assertions get any attention. Go hard or go home. It may be silly, but it’s true. And you can make those big assertions and they can be empty because, a year from now?…