Today is Ada Lovelace day, in which we are celebrating women in science and computing.
Daryl Rayner is the Exact Editions Managing Director and one of the three founders of the company (with Tim Bruce and me, Adam Hodgkin). Daryl has a wonderful record of persistently and courteously creating business on the web, at Exact Editions and in her previous career. In fact she was in the 1990’s the first web marketing manager for Nature, the leading scientific research … Keep Reading
Exact Editions and Osprey Publishing announced the launch of an initial group of apps for the iPhone/iPad market today. There is a full press release here.
Free samples of the books are available through iTunes from these icons
Philippi 42 BC:
The First Crusade:
Warsaw 1944:
Fredericksburg 1862:
Iwo Jima 1945:
These apps illustrate a couple of important points for publishers who are considering the iPhone/iPad market.
The idea that books might work as apps on the iPhone first struck home when I heard someone say that the idea did not scale well…. So for me this ‘books as apps’ meme started with the negative idea that books would not work too well as apps in the iPhone economy. But sales in the iPhone app store suggest that books as apps are working very well (customers are buying them) and in the last few … Keep Reading
This is one of those nicely ambiguous counterfactuals. Contrast, as David Lewis does:
If Caesar had been in command [in Korea] he would have used catapults
If Caesar had been in command he would have used the atom bomb
In this case I am thinking about catapults. I mean Twitter is obviously a much simpler system than the web and in that respect it might have been easier for a researcher in 1992 to dream up a good way of … Keep Reading
The Guardian on Friday had a convenient round up of some of the YouTube demos of magazine or newspaper concept apps. There were five demos, here they are (with a few comments):
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