Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear.
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Visual Proof That Wikipedia is Kind of Large
One man took it upon himself to print out 437 Wikipedia articles. The end result? A book so comically large that you have to appreciate it.
Read More »Because of James Joyce, a Living Organism is in Violation of Copyright
Because a quote from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was used in forming the synthetic DNA of a bacteria, said bacteria is now accused of being in violation of copyright.
Read More »The Last Stand of the Autonomous Self
Julian Smith: don't you ever interrupt me while I'm reading a book. Video after the jump.
Read More »Gift notion: stick your book out
An elegant stocking-stuffer that also proves there's still innovation to be found in books.
Read More »Facing the crowded future of reading
Two very different sets of assumptions about what books are and what reading them in a networked age should be like.
Read More »Hacking the app called the book
Jonathan Safran Foer's new book, The Tree of Codes, has a marvelous title. But the real marvel begins when you turn the cover to find that the story is literally carved out of another work�namely, The Street of Crocodiles, the 1934 cycle of short stories by martyred Polish writer Bruno Schulz. There's a gadget angle to all this, but you'll have to follow the jump for it.
Read More »What Technology Wants: Kevin Kelly and uncanny tools
In 'What Technology Wants', author and Wired founder Kevin Kelly elaborates a theory of technology that emancipates tools from the bondage of human hands. In the weeks to come, I'll be blogging my reading of Kelly's challenging and provocative work.
Read More »Children’s ebooks phone home
Isabella Products, a maker of wireless digital picture frames, has teamed up with publishing giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to bring a children's e-reader to market next summer. Called the Fable, the device will be marketed as a networked color tablet for kids, and will feature a 7-inch color touchscreen and a wireless networking over a secure, managed connection.
Read More »Author Writes 300,000 Books in Less Than 5 Years
I’ve always loved to write but I have never been a long-form writer. I never had the patience, nor the creativity to write anything longer than a page or two. In a way, I’ve always been the blogger I am today, despite my best efforts to one-day be a best-selling novelist. While I’m fairly certain that there’s no chance of ...
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