Was it a coincidence that on pretty much the same day Google made an announcement about its massive newspaper archiving project, Plastic Logic announced its plans for an eInk newspaper reader? Both stories were caught by the NY Times: plastic papers here, and deep print archives here.
If Plastic Logic have their way you will be able to read any of today’s newspaper anywhere in a digital format on a single fold away sheet, something like a … Keep Reading
Modern Poetry in Translation joins the shop. Enjoy the free trial issue:
Taste Italia joins our shop. Taste the trial issue
Bloomsbury have made an unconventional entry into Academic Publishing. It is not unconventional to start a new list: Bloomsbury Academic, but the business model that they outline is highly radical and very intriguing:
All titles will be made available free of charge online, with free downloads, for non-commercial purposes, immediately upon publication, using Creative Commons licences. The works will also be sold as books, using latest short-run technologies or Print on Demand (POD). From the News Release 5/9/08
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We have recently ‘stealth’ launched some digital books that seems to me so good that I am a trifle frustrated that hardly anyone has yet noticed that books now have live phone numbers and post codes. With the iPhone, such digital books give a whole new resonance to the phrase “Let your fingers do the talking.” I blogged the Time Out City Guide to London a couple of weeks ago here. But you can now buy it for £4.95 … Keep Reading
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