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  • February 17th, 2013

    The Weekly Good: Worldreader Wants To Put A Digital Book In Every Child’s Hand

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    One of the amazing things about technology is that it opens the doors to things for less fortunate folks that many of us take for granted. Being able to sit down and read a good book is something that we do on a daily basis, but never think about all of the people out there who don’t have that luxury. With sites like Amazon, we have a seemingly infinite number of choices on what we’d like to read… → Read More

    December 18th, 2010

    Google eBooks: Is That All There Is?

    Two weeks ago the Google eBookstore finally launched, and the world was briefly amazed. Google Editions, as it was known until launch, was the book world’s Duke Nukem Forever: vaporware for seven years, depending on how you count. Its actual emergence was like the birth of a unicorn. A mewling, misshapen, half-baked unicorn.

    Some background: “In 2004 Google digitized the entire contents of→ Read More

    November 11th, 2010

    Rethink Books Gives Us A Glimpse At Social Books (Video Demo)

    Books are becoming electronic like every other form of print media, but they still lag in their social skills. A startup called Rethink Books wants to incorporate sharing features into every electronic book and turn them into social books. I caught up with founders Jason Ilian and Jason Johnson today at the TedxEast conference in New York City, where they presented a demo f their… → Read More

    August 9th, 2010

    Fotopedia Introduces The Endless Photo Book On The iPad (Video Demo)

    The iPad is fostering all sorts of new ideas for how to create digital books, and the most interesting ones do not come in iBook form. Instead, they are being delivered as apps. A great example of this is Fotopedia Heritage, the first of a series of photo books for the iPad and iPhone (iTunes link).

    It is not just a photo book dumped into the iPad. The Fotopedia photo book app goes well beyond… → Read More