[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. […]
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The Elements of Typographic Style is a masterpiece of a dying art. Robert Bringhurst is a man of content and form. He is both a poet and a typographer. And his is a seminal work on Typography. In my lifetime I have watched the desktop publishing revolution supplant 5 centuries […]
The looming problem in ebook copyright may curtail the growth and longevity of this burgeoning industry. The problem seems to be developing in three areas that will only compound over the coming months as different e-readers and ebook retailers enter the market. The three main issues are copyright protection, proprietary […]
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 […]