Links tagged with “ebooks”
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Lacuna Books
Online tool for writing books and papers. Long content, footnotes etc, output to HTML and, for $10, EPUB and PDF. Looks good. (via Tom Taylor)
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Packagr
Promises to make it easy to repurpose blogs etc, and output to Kindle, iBooks, App Store etc. Not properly launched yet, looks interesting. By Ben Brown et al.
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An Open Letter to E-Book Retailers: Let’s have a return to common sense | TeleRead
All sensible, and all things that have put me off ebooks. But mainly for: “If the button said ‘buy now’ and I clicked on it and I paid anything remotely resembling full retail price, I should *own* the book.” Yes. Who has ever said, “I’m going to buy a license to read that book!”
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Paradise Regained « Snarkmarket
That is a lovely story from the introduction to a Project Gutenberg ebook of ‘Paradise Lost’. 100,000 punch cards!
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Amazon introduces new Kindle eBook format and makes a major misstep :Guido Henkel
This kind of obsolescence in an already fairly new platform doesn’t encourage me to buy a Kindle. (via @jamesbridle)
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Kindle typography
Going to some lengths to make Kindle typography better using JavaScript and CSS.
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Luna’s Café: Typography is about reading – and so are ebooks
There are a few reasons I’ve never bought a Kindle book, and this thoughtlessness on the part of publishers and Amazon is one. (via Daring Fireball)
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Walter Benjamin’s Aura: Open Bookmarks and the future eBook
James Bridle again, saying and proposing wonderful things.