Yesterday I bought myself Stanza and Classics from the iPhone ApStore. Stanza was free, gives me free access to a lot of books and samples, and the Classics collection cost me 99c. So it wasn’t an expensive day. They both work fine. I will read some of The Time Machine in the Stanza format, and some of Paradise Lost with the mildly annoying page-flip in the Classics reader. Since I havent read too much H G Wells or Milton in … Keep Reading
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The Register has a tantalizing and extraordinary glimpse of a ‘new’ Samsung device, which is both a mobile phone and a fold-out 5″ digital viewer. Here is a YouTube of the device clamped in a showcase at a trade show:
The market for mobile phones and similar (or dissimilar) devices will explode in the next three years. They will be a lot smarter and more content aware than today’s models. Publishers are not yet thinking hard about these potential markets. … Keep Reading
What would Google do? I think that the CEO of any magazine company should ask themselves this question. We are now in a really tough recession. Advertising is getting scarce, shrinking in print and going to the web. Subscriptions are tough. News stand sales are tougher. Magazines and periodicals are explicitly excluded from the scope of the Google Settlement with the Authors and Publishers. But what would Google do with magazines?
The short answer is that Google would not be … Keep Reading
Real Travel joins the shop
- ToC
- With live links on the Map of Contents
- A lot of links in the Directory
Sidewalk skates in to our shop
- ToC
- This is not as easy at it looks
- Nollies and switch ollies: did you know what they are?
