Unfortunetly that's exactly what traditional publishers are doiing: take the print-pdf and throw them on the Internet hoping to make extra bugs. But when the...
... Thanks Chad, for this detailed depiction of the state of eBooks in Japan. Very informative. I'm glad that these things are advancing outside the (now...
... Wow! That sounds great. Now I'm going to have to find one and look at it. ... What does this mean? Are there three colors (black, white, grey)? Is it...
Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars. Sources familiar...
Michael Hart
hart@...
Apr 1, 2004 7:00 pm
19807
In the context of the new Sony Librie ebook reader, Skippi recently suggested that the fact that the display is reflective rather than light-emitting is...
According to Seattle Times a 60-year old looking man, very similar in appearance to that of Carlos Castaneda, a famous anthropologist, a fiction writer, and a...
Got it today. Not an April Fool's joke. There appears to be hope, after all, for those yet unpaid. Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press Science Fiction and...
Hello all, I wrote this board 6 months ago and mentioned that I was going to start working on huge website dedicated to eBooks/Authors/Community...well the...
Over time, the 'correct' usage tends to normalize toward actual usage. Searching Google for 'ebook' returns 65% more pages than 'e- book' -- so that is likely...
But if you notice that most of searh engine dictionary still do not have plural version of ebook (ebooks)/ so when you search for ebook, you will not get the...
I don't know if anyone's mentioned this yet. But my husband showed me a copy of an article that was on jinjapan.org back on 3/22/04. I can't find the article...
... I notice that Golden Crater's excellent TinyReader program is optimized for Smartphone use: http://www.goldencrater.com/software/phone/TinyReader.htm and...
Spring has sprung! As sure as April showers bring May flowers, April also brings us two holidays: Easter and Passover. We've compiled a list of titles that...
Last week I came across the Canadian CLEAR technology, from Sunnybrook Technologies. It appears to be based on the (rather ingenious) work described in this...
More DRM failure... Slashdot is reporting that a SourceForge project called "Playfair" has posted code for decrypting the DRM-protected AAC tunes sold on...
I need to create an ebook with some integrated interactive applet. It should be something like an electornic course book, with text, images and examples about...
If you use Adobe Acrobat 5.0 or 6.0 to format your e-book you can include JavaScript code as part of the forms function, a feature that allows a wide range of...
Someone calling himself "millechiodi" (hard to tell whether this is a ... Remember that Javascript (properly called ECMAscript these days) really has nothing...
It is a very interesting technology but I do not think it is going to beat ink paper in ebook applications. Ink paper is very energy efficient while Clear is...
Hello ajmorrisdotcom! ... OK, I counted Google hits (not case sensitive) and the result is: e-book + e-books : 49% ebook + ebooks : 51% I am having so much...
Hello Mk! ... I would recommend to you web browser + Java Runtime Environment. JavaScript in PDF is not going to help you. I don't know is OEBPS is capable of...
... How true this is, the integration of executable code into an e-book opens up all sorts of possibilities and the development of such techniques was one of...
Thanks to all for the replies. I know the most easy thing is to use a brower, but i'm doing a thesis and my professor thinks it's a good idea to use an ebook....
http://www.ala.org/bbooks/ Neet button and some neet quotes! "[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be...
... Whoa! That's a lot of work. I wrote a GTK+ reader for Plucker (www.plkr.org). It's open source and fairly simple, so it should be easy to modify, and...
... Thank you to all who replied with feedback. A first cut at an e-book Explorer is now available at ...
NetWorker
networker@...
Apr 7, 2004 11:05 pm
19831
Hello, everyone! As many of you are probably aware, KnowBetter.com produces a series of Reading Lists on a variety of subjects. The idea is to generate...
Hello, everyone! We're pleased to announce another free service for publishers and authors! With a variety of titles being offered for free on the Internet...