From MagCulture:
Ben emailed me last week promising a surprise, which duly arrived in the post yesterday.
He and Russell have published a tabloid newsprint publication featuring some of their favourite posts from 23 friends’ blogs last year. The project came about when they found out how cheap and easy it is to print 1000 copies of [...]
From David Rothman at Teleread:
I wonder if the time hasn’t come for the OpenOffice crowd or others in the open source community to consider designing a multilingual program from scratch for ePub creation and other publishing activities. The OpenDocument format has its purposes, but book publishing shouldn’t be regarded as a major one.
ePubWriter, as I’ll [...]
One of the drawbacks of ereaders is that you can’t spread out a bunch of books on your desk for reference. Here’s a video about that problem, and an unlikely solution.
[via mikecane]
In its current incarnation, Christoph Benda’s first novel requires that you a) be able to read German and b) have an internet connection.
Benda’s work, Senghor on the Rocks, is a geo-referenced electronic novel in which the text is combined with an embedded map mash-up from Google Maps on a website. [more...]
Wonderful project by Apt & Institute for the Future of the Book, via BookTwo:
Several months ago we heard that the Institute for the Future of the Book was setting up in the UK, and we approached Chris Meade with a view to working with if:book London on a joint project. The result of this was [...]
As someone of the web (most recently), with a sense of the nuts and bolts of information management in a digital format (and a soft spot for the semantic web).
I’m also, of course, sort of obsessed with writing and how new media can change the world of publishing.
I’m a fan of the markup language [...]
