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september 2008 the book is dead the book is dead a blog about a book about books blog events media the dead book archive for september 2008 monthly archive page greetings from tokyo posted september 30 2008 filed under ebooks leave a comment so i m in the japanese capital for a few days checking out keitai culture and hopefully meeting some folk who know more about it than me on my subway rides to date i ve noticed that the phones are generally bigger than at home the screens are larger which probably allows a greater range of uses so maybe people are happy to pocket a bigger device if it lets them do more and surprisingly there were still people reading newspapers on the train as an aside the iphone served as a perfect ereader on the 9 hour flight over once i convinced the hostess that it was in flight mode updated iliad reviewed posted september 25 2008 filed under ebooks leave a comment ed baig in usa today has a look at an updated iliad reader similar to the device sold at dymocks for aud 899 the new machine appears a little sleeker as it hits the us market for the first time baig is unimpressed though whilst he likes the screen bigger than kindle or sony he s scathing about the software but the system is slow to boot up and the interface is unattractive and unintuitive if i turned the machine on when the sd card with content was inserted the first and only thing visible on the home screen is an icon for settings icons for documents inbox and help showed up only if i inserted the sd card after the machine was turned on an oddly labeled up a level icon on the home screen is a dead giveaway that irex could use a lesson in designing far friendlier software by summoning a main menu you can rotate the display add bookmarks find words and look up dictionary definitions but the only way to turn the device off is to summon that menu again and tap or navigate to a turn off device icon i ll make certain allowances for a beta device but i m hard pressed to recommend something this expensive and this much of a kludge some of us have been spoilt by well designed and integrated consumer electronic products yes i m talking about the ipod and the iphone and have come to the conclusion that hardware is almost a commodity now although amazon s industrial design proves that hardware isn t easy either bottom line is it s the software stupid an iphone only magazine posted september 24 2008 filed under ebooks internet print leave a comment apple s iphone has provoked much discussion some of it here about its role as a possible replacement for print on paper the itunes app store already hosts ereader and stanza software which allow the reading of downloadable books both commercial and public domain as well as bundled stand alone books that range from repackaged project gutenberg titles to original self published tomes in the magazine realm zinio com allows iphone users to browse freely from a range of magazines from its digital newsstand now comes news of a bi monthly fashion mag from new york social photographer patrick mcmullan called pmc it s available for 99 cents from the itunes app store new yorker magazine has a brief article quoting mcmullan which gestures towards his motivation and mindset towards print i shouldn t say this mcmullan continued after a minute but i don t have an iphone he uses an ipod to listen to music he makes calls on a blackberry but vogue vanity fair i can t carry them with me anymore they re like books even the times is easier to read on the computer the end according to new york magazine posted september 22 2008 filed under print leave a comment long piece in new york magazine dissecting the state of the book publishing industry title says it all sales at the five big publishers were up 0 5 percent in the first half of this year bookstore sales tanked in june and a full year decline is expected but pretty much every aspect of the business seems to be in turmoil there s the floundering of the few remaining semi independent midsize publishers the ouster of two powerful ceos one who inspired editors and one who at least let them be the desperate race to evolve into e book producers the dire state of borders the only real competitor to barnes noble the feeling that outrageous money is being wasted on mediocre books and amazon com which many publishers look upon as a power hungry monster bent on cornering the whole business via boing boing the future of magazines posted september 21 2008 filed under ebooks internet leave a comment hot on the heels of zinio which offers free browsing for iphone users so go check out an iphone user agent plug in for firefox news of coverleaf a similar digital newstand reserving judgement on whether these ideas are more useful than say a magazine website partly because i m uncertain about the need to replicate the look and feel of printed pages in the digital realm after all e books are much easier to read when the text can be re flowed to suit your reading device but there s no denying the visceral appeal of a beautifully designed magazine page maybe one day we ll have the screens to do them justice pod a r posted september 18 2008 filed under ebooks print leave a comment jason epstein argues that print on demand is a more likely scenario than e books and it appears that some booksellers agree here in oz dymocks has gone the ebook route and its big chain rival has zagged the other way embracing the espresso pod machine angus robertson today became the first australian book chain to install the espresso book machine ebm capable of printing trimming and binding a paperback book on demand within minutes shoppers will initially be able to choose from several hundred out of print or difficult to get hold of books but angus robertson said the range would expand daily reaching 10 000 within 18 months they would cost the same as the current shelf price of paperbacks or less the retailer said and in a final damning with faint praise aside the smh piece suggests that dymocks had sold only about 10 000 ebooks and many hundreds of reading devices the sony reader s new target posted september 16 2008 filed under ebooks leave a comment the problem well one of them with ebooks is they re actually not on many people s radar a book to most folk is print on paper part of that is the invisibility of ebook devices particularly in australia anyhow the sony reader previously available only at sony store borders and online is making a mass market move and is now available at target we ll see if that raises its profile more on plastic logic posted september 11 2008 filed under ebooks leave a comment following up on the last post on the plastic logic ereader gizmodo has more info pics and links to a tgdaily piece with a video looks like it s significantly bigger than kindle or sony but they re aiming at a completely different corporate market plastic logic s senior director of product marketing maureen mellon told us the reader isn t really competing with the kindle because they are aiming for the mobile business professional or someone with a lot of documents already for consumers it comes down to a choice between a device that gets almost all of its content from amazon or to something with a huge screen that easily handles user generated documents of course the street finds its own use for things and if the price was right and the device could read the right file formats then who knows an iphone plastic logic double act might suit many better than a kindle we might have to wait awhile though unfortunately mellon couldn t tell us how much the reader would cost and everything is still in very early stages another rep said it s too early we re still changing stuff he added that there isn t even a data sheet yet on the reader a dedicated e newspaper posted september 8 2008 filed under ebooks leave a comment following in the footsteps of sony s reader and amazon s kindle with its nyt subscriptions a company called plastic logic has announced a device with a bigger screen designed to cope better with newspaper layouts richard archuleta the chief executive of plastic logic said the display was big enough to provide a newspaperlike layout even though we have positioned this for business documents newspapers is what everyone asks for mr archuleta said another use for unwanted books posted september 8 2008 filed under print leave a comment the last time i did the rounds of the second hand bookshops trying to whittle down the collection not only was the monetary return scant but they didn t want half of books even for free whilst that something about my reading tastes there are lots of books out there doing not very much at all so how about this from boing boing designer laura cahill wanted to make art without wasting new material she did a bunch of research and found out that used books are the most common unwanted objects so she took her second hand book collection and turned it into beautiful pieces of 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