Personanondata finds an in interesting YouTube ‘concept’ for an Apple eBook reader.
The movie shows an iPod which fits into a folding tablet device which opens out to give two reading pages. Cute. I slot my iPod into a Bose speaker system, why shouldnt I slot my iPod into an eBook tablet?
But this vision of the book-specific hardware is all wrong. Yesterday Apple launched its eBook reader the iPhone. The hardware-specific eBook reader was and is a … Keep Reading
47th title in the shop. All the readers of this magazine care about the environmental impact of publishing and the ways in which digital editions can reduce that impact.
There is a view that the web is such a potent and direly competitive medium that newspapers, magazines, books will not be able to meet the challenge. As though these wonderful cultural artefacts will be replaced by something else……. whatever that may be.
We think this gloom is misplaced. Print thrives on the web, and so far from being dead it gets a second life when relaunched as a digital edition and a searchable resource.
And its … Keep Reading
The Press Gazette today has a special section on the environmental agenda in the newspaper and magazine industry. It includes an important article from Peter Phippen, managing director of BBC magazines. As he says, we need ‘a combination of rapid technical innovation and significant behavioural change’.
Press Gazette, 22.06.07, p 18. For digital subscribers link here.Then Phippen covers key aspects of the distribution and recycling chain: the BBC is now using paper only from sustainable sources, paying … Keep Reading
So we now have 46 titles in the Exact Editions shop.
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