Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Mike Cane writes: and I agree
Steve Jobs hates ePub. He hates eBooks.
How can anyone with his refined sense of taste not hate them?
They’re an abomination. A tasteless — and incompetent — techie committee solution to electronic books.
Read the article here from epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed.
Textbook Firms Ink E-Deals For iPad — Major textbook publishers have struck deals with software company ScrollMotion Inc. to adapt their textbooks for the electronic page, as the industry embraces a hope that digital devices such as Apple Inc.'s iPad will transform the classroom.
Read the article here from Techmeme.
Kassia Krozser says:
Short answer: nobody knows.
Longer answer: the magic elixir publishers are injecting into ebooks in hopes they will entice people to pay higher prices.
Read the article here from Booksquare.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Lighting fires. No not even that.
Apple launched the iPad yesterday and so now the debate rages about the device as an eBook reader. Here is what Ben Elowitz, is saying over at Techcrunch.
The really good news is that the iPad supports ePub so Pagetoscreen can help you make eBooks in this format.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Here is what Techcruch reports:
The iPad will support the popular ePub format and authors will be able to embed multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files directly into books. That’s a cool feature for standard books and an outstanding feature for textbooks. Imagine your history book containing video and audio snippets.
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
Also see my web site about my boat AViVA. This was built with iWeb (not exactly to web standards but interesting tool for web building).
September 10, 10 - 08:17 am
Apple has relaxed restrictions on app dev tools. Maybe RunRev mobile will be useful after all. RunRev http://bit.ly/cbLF3i
September 09, 10 - 08:25 am
I went to the Web Teaching Day report with some useful links http://bit.ly/9AiGcm #wtd2010
September 09, 10 - 08:22 am
Just bought "HTML5: Up and Running" ePub for my iPad. Who needs print anymore? http://oreil.ly/9yGoOF
September 06, 10 - 11:13 am
#wtd2010 Standardistas need a new course but University of Ulster cannot accept the proposals for political reasons. Needs blended approach
September 06, 10 - 10:52 am
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