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03 Sep 08

Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm | Epicenter from Wired.com

  • A small, digital book startup thinks it has a solution to the age-old student lament: overpriced textbooks that have little value when the course is over. The answer? Make them open source -- and give them away.
  • Flat World's business plan aims to exploit the inefficiencies: Its books are online and free. Instead of charging for content it aims to make money by wrapping content up in "convenient" downloadable and print wrappers and selling those, along with study aides and related items.
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04 Dec 07

Gazette: Making the Most of the Material Past (Mar/Apr 2002)

  • A few beats later, he’ll disclose his work on the “elaborate bookmarking
    systems” that are repeatedly depicted in 15th- and 16th-century paintings
    and which he lovingly describes as “each made of two small pieces of vellum,
    glued onto both sides of the edge of a leaf, knotted where they meet,
    then covered with silk thread worked around the wire … it is amazing how
    small the heads of these bookmarks are, and how complicated they must
    have been to make.”
  • Renaissance Clothing and The Materials of Memory
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Gazette: Making the Most of the Material Past (Mar/Apr 2002)

  • It was a book
    he read in manuscript form—“Shakespeare Verbatim” by Margreta de Grazia,
    a professor of English at Penn—that threw Stallybrass headlong into this
    new discipline. “If Margreta’s work is right,” Stallybrass explains, “it
    means that most of our work on Shakespeare is quite simply wrong.
    Wrong because we have transferred a wide range of our assumptions to a
    period which resists those very assumptions—about the individual and his/her
    detachment from ‘mere’ objects; about authorship and print culture; about
    originality and intellectual property; about the relations between identity,
    sexuality, and economic property.”
21 Nov 07

Språkrådet - Søk i ordbøker

  • Årsaken var enkel: Det fantes ikke utstyr å lese digitale bøker på som var i nærheten av å kunne matche papirboka i lesbarhet, praktisk bruksverdi og taktil opplevelse.
  • har den en nettbutikk innebygd. Du kan kjøpe nye bøker til din Kindle fra Amazon med ett klikk, via en trådløs teknologi kalt Whispernet. «Kindle er ikke en dings. Det er en tjeneste», sier Amazon-sjef Jeff Bezos til Newsweek.
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18 Nov 07

The Future of Reading | Print Article | Newsweek.com

  • But even Hill acknowledges that reading on a televisionlike screen a desktop away is not the ideal experience. Over the centuries, the sweet spot has been identified: something you hold in your hand, something you can curl up with in bed. Devices like the Kindle, with its 167 dot-per-inch E Ink display, with type set in a serif font called Caecilia, can subsume consciousness in the same way a physical book does. It can take you down the rabbit hole.
  • it is also something more: a perpetually connected Internet device.
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22 Sep 07

Place: Networked Place

  • That this essay opens at a coffeehouse is not incidental. For theorist Jürgen Habermas, when the "public sphere" emerged in the early eighteenth century, it did so in the context of the café, the learned society, and the salon.[1]
  • What kind of public do we have in the Magic Johnson-owned Starbucks scene in our quotidian present
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