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The iPod is the future of publishing
Some time ago I wrote an article saying iPods could dramatically affect the book world. Turns out they already have.

The future has clearly arrived: Apple's immensely popular iPod --the software company shipped 5.3 million of the variously priced and sized devices in its second fiscal quarter of 2005 alone -- is making consumers more comfortable with the idea of downloading audiobooks and listening on-the-go. So could DABs -- which are more accessible, hip and cost-effective than traditional formats like cassettes and CDs -- be the next big thing?

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Too tired to read to your kids tonight?
Just let the computer do it.

For all those parents whose voices have grown hoarse sounding out the rhymes in their child's favorite picture book "just one more time," some reinforcements have arrived. One More Story is a new online library where children can choose a book -- complete with narration, highlighted text, and the book's original illustrations -- and listen as they read along on the computer.

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Writers learn to love the web
And not just for porn and online poker.

Novelist Jasper Fforde has built up a substantial personal website since publishing his first book in 2001, with content dedicated to the alternate-reality Britain that provides the backdrop to his stories. He runs a selection of websites with his partner, fleshing out the world of his main character, the time-travelling literary detective Thursday Next.

I don't remember being particularly web savvy," he says about the origins of his online endeavours. "When we started jasperfforde.com, it was a curiosity: websites weren't a new thing, but they were new enough. I thought about the world I created, and I liked the idea of visualising it. I thought that would fit in well with the idea of a website; help blur the edges between what's real and what's not."

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The latest in e-paper
I can't wait until this stuff becomes mainstream. (Although it may really kill off our kind....)

The new product, first to be shown on July 14 at the Tokyo International Forum, is a film substrate-based bendable color electronic paper. Similar to Flash memory, the display integrates a non-volatile data memory function that is able to continuously display the same image without being connected to a power supply. Electricity is only needed when users want to change the displayed content. According to Fujitsu, the material used enables high-resolution and "vivid color" images that are unaffected even when the screen is bent.

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The Readius
The e-reader is coming.

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Sony Librie unchained
Someone has produced a non-DRM version of Sony's nice but crippled e-book reader.

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Edited by author 10-03-2005 02:20 PM
Yahoo tries to please the people

They're going to ask nicely for our work.

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Technology finally catches up with the whims of Ninja Murray

And my vocation has been clearly defined to boot. I'm an EPG: "Expert pub goer".


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The Sony Portable Reader System
Sony's latest e-book reader wants to be the iPod of books, and it may be. Publishers certainly seem to think so, as Random House and HarperCollins will sell books through Sony's Connect store. Unfortunately, their Connect store only works with Internet Explorer 5.5 and up, so who knows if the store is any good? Still, I'm intrigued by the reader.

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Waiting for the new Gutenberg
The Guardian says e-books are going to take over the market sooner rather than later. I was fine with that until Bill Gates started talking.

For the demagogues at Microsoft and Google, the future is a place where we will all be wandering around with "tablets" onto which extracts of the entire human literary output can be downloaded. Like an iPod for books.

"Within four or five years, instead of spending money on textbooks," Mr Gates said recently about students, "they'll spend a mere $400 or so buying that tablet device and the material they hook up to will all be on the wireless internet with animations, timelines and links to deep information. But they'll be spending less than they would have on textbooks and have a dramatically better experience."

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Personally I can't wait for this to happen. I'm a law student and these books are killing my back (I cracked a couple of vertebrae in the army, and after two surgical procedures I still can't sit straight for long, let alone lug all these books around!).

And we'll be able to search text and highlight and de-highlight and never have to scrape around going "Now where in H is my berloody bookmark box?!?"

More on the Sony Reader
Wired has a detailed piece on Sony's new e-book reader, including pics and an explanation of how the E Ink technology works.

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Books of the program-all in one place.
So it is convenient.Email marketing software. Free Adsense Templates page.

It's a pleasant surprise to find a sanctury from all that modern inane garbage they call music.