[Note: I just published this yesterday and now I have to revise it! Apple has now made their play for a publishing platform. However a significant difference with Apple’s platform is that they have chosen to slant the platform to established published works by requiring a 13 digit ISBN number. […]
Loc & MT
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These articles are all related to my consulting work for globalization, localization, and machine translation.
Text-to-speech(TTS) is one of the experimental features added to the Kindle 2 and it caused a huge controversy. In this post I will discuss the controversy and examine some of the more innovative players in text-to-speech technology. Upon the release of the Kindle 2 the Author’s guild protested to Amazon […]
An upcoming development in e-readers will be the battle for revenue from non-English content. Though Amazon has made large strides in English ebooks their international rollout of the Kindle has left them somewhat vulnerable on this front. A fully capable e-reader that allows UTF-8 and thus can display every language […]