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03 Aug 09

Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker / Nicholson Baker

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Here’s what you buy when you buy a Kindle book. You buy the right to display a grouping of words in front of your eyes for your private use with the aid of an electronic display device approved by Amazon.
Kindle books aren’t transferrable. You can’t give them away or lend them or sell them. You can’t print them. They are closed clumps of digital code that only one purchaser can own. A copy of a Kindle book dies with its possessor.
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- He didn’t want to walk off the beach to get another book, and he didn’t want to lie on the beach and dig moist holes with his feet, thinking about the algorithmic beauty of seaweeds. What he wanted was to push a little button that would swap the words in the book he held for the words in some other book somewhere else. He wanted the book he held to be infinitely rewriteable—to be, in fact, the very last book he would ever have to own. He called it “The Last Book.”
- A century and a half of evolved beauty and informational expressiveness is all but entirely rinsed away in this digital reductio.
- The Kindle DX ($489) doesn’t save newspapers; it diminishes and undercuts them—it kills their joy. It turns them into earnest but dispensable blogs.
- Amazon, with its listmania lists and its sometimes inspired recommendations and its innumerable fascinating reviews, is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at making things. But, fortunately, if you want to read electronic books there’s another way to go.
- The iPod screen’s resolution, at a hundred and sixty-three pixels per inch, is fairly high. (It could be much higher, though. High pixel density, not a reflective surface, is, I’ve come to believe, what people need when they read electronic prose.) There are other ways to read books on the iPod, too. My favorite is the Eucalyptus application, by a Scottish software developer named James Montgomerie: for $9.99, you get more than twenty thousand public-domain books whose pages turn with a voluptuous grace.

21 Nov 07

Bookeen - Cybook ePaper - le livre électronique

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Le Cybook supporte le format Mobipocket^TM. Ce format encrypté permet au possesseur de Cybook d'avoir accès à l'un des plus importants catalogues de livres contemporains sous copyright. La plupart des grandes maisons d'édition fournissent des titres dans ce format : Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster ou Harlequin pour les contenu anglais mais également Gallimard, Le Rocher ou Editis pour le contenu français. Avec plusieurs dizaines de librairies numériques qui proposent des livres Mobipocket, le possesseur du Cybook pourra choisir sa boutique de livres préférée.

Comité Colbert - Cahier des charges Flammarion Beaux Livres

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Proposer une alternative créative et visionnaire au livre traditionnel tout en préservant ses valeurs fondamentales universelles : simple, substantiel et sensible. Ce nouveau média devra séduire les passionnés de nouvelles technologies autant que les lecteurs plus conservateurs attachés au livre en papier.

Sony - Reader

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The Future of Electronic Paper - TFOT

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A: I like to tell people that the holy grail of e-paper will be embodied as a cylindrical tube, about 1 centimeter in diameter and 15 to 20 centimeters long, that a person can comfortably carry in his or her pocket. The tube will contain a tightly rolled sheet of e-paper that can be spooled out of a slit in the tube as a flat sheet, for reading, and stored again at the touch of a button. Information will be downloaded—there will be simple user interface—from an overhead satellite, a cell phone network, or an internal memory chip. This document reader will be used for e-mail, the Internet, books downloaded from a global digital library that is currently under construction, technical manuals, newspapers (perhaps in larger format), magazines, and so forth, anywhere on the planet. It will cost less than $100, and nearly everyone will have one!