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Ryan said:
Joe Clark lays out the case for using an HTML format as a Web standard for e-books. It's an obviously brilliant and necessary thing, but will publishers see proprietary formatting as a form of de facto DRM?
Quote: I am articulating an HTML-triumphalist view of E-book production. By backing what I feel is obviously the right horse, I am contributing to the strangulation of new or uninvented forms of the book. Added: March 9, 2010 at 7:47AM EST
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Ryan said:
This book is a data-focused remix of "Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist," the book Adrian Holovaty often recommends to journalists who want to get started with Django.
Quote: Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. Added: February 5, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
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Ryan said:
Traditional content delivery format: Audio book. The @garyvee-style remix format: Audio book where he rambles off and tells different stories, updates listeners on ideas that have evolved since the hardback was published.
Quote: It was published the first week of January and has been selling incredibly well despite the fact that I can’t seem to find anywhere except for a few tweets from Gary that there’s new information here Added: January 20, 2010 at 11:11AM EST
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Ryan said:
Nice new e-reader from Hearst shows off a bit of a bendability, but it's still not at the roll-up-in-back-pocket stage just yet.
Quote: Skiff includes 4GB of on-board storage (just over 3GB is available for content) with SD card expansion, and there's a 3.5mm headphone jack for tunes and, hopefully, text-to-speech. Content can be side-loaded over a mini USB jack or delivered via WiFi but, more importantly, 3G is also on offer thanks to Sprint, who will also dedicate some space in its retail stores to sell the thing when it launches sometime this year. Price? That we don't know. Added: January 4, 2010 at 2:48PM EST
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Ryan said:
I'm fascinated by the sales model that Robin Sloan and the rest of the Snarkmarket crew have been using for "print" products lately. In this case, it's: "...the ransom model: After 100 Kindle copies are sold, I’ll post the free web version right here."
Added: August 13, 2009 at 4:02PM EDT
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