Posts tagged “ebooks”
Subscriptionization, eBook-style
This week’s CBC tech column is about Amazon’s rumoured book rental service. A copy is up at cbc.ca/tech, and below, for posterity. The podcast version, posted below, includes a full interview with bookfuturist and Wired.com staff writer Tim Carmody. Subscriptionization, eBook-style by misener (download mp3) === Details are slim, but on Monday the Wall Street Journal reported that [...]
The very first eBook
Yesterday, July 4, 2011, the digital book community celebrated the 40th anniversary of the eBook. According to most accounts, July 4, 1971 is the date Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart first digitized the US Declaration of Independence. But, as I was researching the anniversary, I came across an interesting tidbit from a 2010 LA times article: Hart [...]
The iPad and textbook piracy
CourseSmart has been all over the tech blogs today, with its new iPad app and claims that its catalog contains 90% of “core textbooks.” I definitely understand the appeal of storing and using textbooks on a tablet device: no books to carry around or forget at home. Everything’s there on one device, complete with bookmarks and [...]