Annotation sharing e-reader launched
Techcrunch reports on Glose a new app for Web and IOS which enhances e-book annotations. I can see myself highlighting a lot more content in Glose than in ot...
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The gatekeeper problem – acknowledged...
From a piece at goodereader.com: So as a reader, how do you insure that you do not fall into the trap of unwittenly purchasing indie eBooks and only buy from...
What will the Hemingwrite be for?
There has been much buzz online recently about the prototype Hemingwrite typewriter . This is an internet-enabled device deliberately hamstrung so as to deny...
Oldish TTBOOK show on the future of r...
Wisconsin Public Radio's To the Best of Our Knowledge is almost always compelling. I used to listen to it on Sundays in San Francisco. Here in exile, I have ...
BBC Radio 4 - Front Row on crowd-fund...
BBC Radio 4's Front Row tonight featured an interesting segment on crowd-funding (mp3), with Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound) and Julian Gough (Kickstarter).
Digital present and future in the TLS
The Times Literary Supplement reviewed three books of particular relevance to this blog last week. The Edge of the Precipice, edited by Paul Socken, is colle...
Is Amazon evil?
The current raft of issues: Is Amazon a monopoly? (Probably not). Is it fixing to become one using a loss leader strategy? Is it strong-arming its suppliers ...
Fiction in an age of full disclosure
In an already much-linked piece in the New York Review of Books blog Tim Parks wrote about literature in a brightly lit world. If fiction has often been a me...