authoring
I’ve been invited yesterday to an open discussion on this subject: “What would Jules Verne say about the future of the books?”. For me, it was like a deep breath of fresh air, talking and listening to people that I could only hope still exist: the next generation of
apple
As the number of apps attached to any single device continues to increase, apps create increasingly higher switching costs for users Asymco analysis on downloaded app increase rate
design
There is a lot of fuss lately around the disfluency in reading a text (Telegraph, UsabilityPost and Wired) Someone has thrown the idea that e-readers are “not so great” because their content is, well, too legible, therefore the learning efficiency is low. (First thing to notice is all the articles’
ebooks
A reply to Susan Orlean’s: horses didn’t get extinct I have just bought The Oxford English Dictionary for 1.99$. I did it out of guilt: 5 years ago the hardcover thing was 120$.
ebooks
I can feel the Force; but not in Google’s ebook store. They somehow managed to loose their mojo, i.e. “search engine functionality”. In first picture there is a result to “Eugene Ionescu” query (not “Ionesco”). You can see on the second position “The Paltinis Diary” by Gabriel Liiceanu.