The touchscreen interface to the iTouch and the iPhone was a crucial innovative step. So far as I know, Apple got this right from the beginning. No false steps. Just a really good system that is steadily getting better (OK — I grant you that the touch screen keyboard is not yet the best part of the iPhone system).
There are two key ways in which the touch interface helps the iPhone to become the best digital reading device, in … Keep Reading
The Bloomsbury Library Online went live last week. It had been announced at the London Book Fair a few weeks ago. This is a library proposition in two senses: it is a plan for selling subscriptions to groups of books through public libraries, and it is a set of themed shelves of books from the overall Bloomsbury list. A proposition for libraries and a plan for offering a customisable and curated library from Bloomsbury. They explain the concept as follows:… Keep Reading
People have noticed that the iPhone is becoming a great environment in which to do some serious reading. But I am not sure that we have yet fully recognised why it has changed our expectations of the optimum digital reading environment. One point was recently well made by Hugh McGuire the Canadian blogger, publisher, philosopher. (He also leads Librivox).
… Keep ReadingMy experience of reading news on iphone is totally different than reading on the web: on the web
We are quite often asked whether the Exact Editions platform works on the Kindle. To which we have a number of answers:
Here is an interesting comment on the Google Books Settlement that came up in an email exchange a couple of days ago:
… Keep ReadingI don’t think anyone (other than the plaintiff’s lawyers) feels good about the settlement as written. As Pamela Samuelson noted, “the settlement, if approved, will shape the future of reading, research, writing, and publication practices for decades to come.” I don’t think anyone knows what this future will look like, which is troubling.
I have not, however, heard
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