I cam across this artifact the other day. The object in the picture at right used to be an illustrated dictionary. An artist named Julia Feld cut away the text in the dictionary and left only the illustrations. She’s done this to a number of other books (the physiology textbook is my favorite), and you [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2010
For your Hallowe’en pleasure: The Raven, as read by Star Trek’s Q
October 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · video
I had planned to post several different reading of The Raven (James Earl Jones and Christopher Walken, for example), but after I found this one I changed my mind. Most of the others read the poem; John de Lancie performed it. Trust me, there’s a difference.
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Entourage Pocket Edge now available from HSN.com
October 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Now isn’t this a surprise. The Home Shopping Network have beat out BestBuy, Walmart, and Amazon to be the first retailer with the new Pocket Edge. This is the new smaller model with a 7″ LCD screen and a 6″ E-ink screen. Aside from the screens, it has much the same specs and abilities as [...]
Three misperceptions about the ebook business
October 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters of Booksprung You can pretty much always find outspoken, passionate diatribes about ebooks online. I’ve written several myself, but in my defense I had to, or else the Ebook Bloggers Board would have flogged me and taken away my WordPress dashboard. Even setting aside my own involvement, I’ve always enjoyed this sort [...]
Tags:business·ebook·misperceptions
Orbit Books Makes A Smart Move
October 30th, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion
Orbit goes digital first with THE WINDUP GIRL Time Magazine named The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi as one of its ten best novels of the year. And the book has also won an extraordinary five of 2010?s major international SF awards: the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook Award and John W. Campbell Memorial Award. [...]
MobileRead are having a contest
October 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Over at MR we are having another contest, and it starts on 31 October. This one’s a murder mystery: You will have the chance to solve a new murder mystery that inexplicably takes place inside the secluded MobileRead headquarters. Take a bit of an Agatha Christie cozy and combine it with a classic “locked room” [...]
Tags:contest·mobileread
iriver Cover Story hits the FCC
October 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
This is a good piece of news for a Friday. The paperwork for iriver’s second gen e-reader just showed up in the FCC database today. I’m hoping this means we’ll see it in the US. There’s not much in the way of new details, though. We already knew that the Cover Story had a 6″ [...]
James Patterson has a fan club app
October 29th, 2010 · No Comments · iPhone app
You might recall that back in May I showed you a couple demo videos of apps from a developer called Sideways. One of the apps was a fan club app. I thought it was a great idea, and I’m a little disappointed that no one followed up on it. Finally, someone has. Hatchette just released [...]
Books will never die (video)
October 29th, 2010 · No Comments · books as art, video
No, they’ll live on as raw materials for Mike Stilkey’s artwork. He’s a LA based artist who has been working with a new montage (is that the right word?) technique. A friend pointed me at this Youtube clip that shows off some rather unusual uses for old books. I did some digging and found his [...]
Buy 10 ebooks from bol.com, get a free e-reader
October 29th, 2010 · 7 Comments · ebookstore news
I found a news story (in Dutch) that is reporting bol.com now have an ebook bundle for 99 euros that consists of 10 ebooks and a basic e-reader. The e-reader isn’t named, but the article does say that it has an E-ink screen but not Wifi or a touchscreen. I’m still trying to verify this [...]
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