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Tony's Tumblog - TOC Report: 10 ways to enhance your iPad books

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TOC Report: 10 ways to enhance your iPad books. Great writeup from Paul Biba based on a TOC talk by Peter Meyers. A list of easy ways that reading on an active screen can be an enhancement over a static page:. Touch a characters name for a quick summary (or a word for definition). Highlighting and note taking, and then finding them later. Interactive table of contents that draws you in. Mini books and continuing sitcom type fiction. And finally ‘Shiny, happy poems’. Blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Tony's Tumblog - Literary Mashups

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A couple of interesting recent news articles point to the ways in which physical- and e-books; and text and other media, are increasingly converging. Today’s NYTimes has a front page article. Describing book-video and physical-online hybrids being released by several publishers. And lest week my friend Jeff at Harvard Bookstore was highlighted in Wired. For his ability to publish books on demand from the Google Book Search catalog. Sure there are still a lot of issues to address. My Linked In profile.

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Tony's Tumblog - Seth Godin on the Kindle

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Seth Godin on the Kindle. The question does get raised of the longer term trend and how value is being squeezed out of the publishing industry. Interestingly I had meetings yesterday both at E Ink. The makers of the screen technology behind the Kindle and similar products), and at the classic Harvard Bookstore. Blog comments powered by Disqus. I'm Tony Confrey, CTO and co-founder of Text Television. We produce TextFlows, a completely new way to experience text. My Linked In profile. Uarr; Back to Top.

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Tony's Tumblog - Clay Shirky and the State of Publishing

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Clay Shirky and the State of Publishing. Clay Shirky has a great blog post up about the state of the publishing industry, particularly newspapers. No answers but a brilliant summation of the dynamics. Anyone interested in whats going on in publishing should give it a read. Http:/ www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/. Blog comments powered by Disqus. I'm Tony Confrey, CTO and co-founder of Text Television. We produce TextFlows, a completely new way to experience text.

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Rather than Professor Wolf’s comparison to ancient Greece, I think the more recent comparison can be seen in the migration of most writing to word processors. With the ability to spell check, erase or re-organize text on the fly, and leverage advanced typography, I doubt many writers would go back to their typewriters, or even less, quill and ink! The generation born a few years hence may experience their first books in fold-able plastic form printed with e-ink on electric screens. Thats when we&rsqu...

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Tony's Tumblog - A Dispatch from the Publishing Frontier

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A Dispatch from the Publishing Frontier. As part of my research into the positioning of TextFlows. In the world of authoring and publishing, I’ve been tracking a number of sources from the publishing world. I’ve posted from a WSJ journal article below but heres another good one from the Publishing Frontier blog: At the Apex. Ldquo; Jumping just a bit into the future, let’s grab our podkinfliptop. Brings up its definition. Clicking on the place-name of Tyre. You take a striking photo. Clearly aesthetics a...

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Tony's Tumblog - How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write

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How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write. Excellent article from the WSJ (maybe subscription access only? On the migratation of books to digital formats. The author describes his ‘aha’ moment of ordering a novel to read while having dinner alone on a business trip. Besides the spontaneity he also explores the upcoming social aspects of reading, the additions of search and hyperlinking, and the potential (good and bad) for fragmentation of written works. Blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Tony's Tumblog - One Ring to Rule them All?

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One Ring to Rule them All? Is Adobe closing in on the one, common, cross-platform, development solution? Updates to the Flash toolkit to allow for cross compilation and output of native iPhone applications. This means that the million plus Flash/Actionscript developers can now use Adobe tools to create and publish apps to Apples app store. A nice piece by Hank Williams. But as of today, that same tool-set and skill-set that I’ve been using to build web apps like TextFlows. Has Adobe squared the circle?

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Experimental innovators don’t over analyze or put all of their hopes into one big bet - they quickly, creatively, and inexpensively use experiments to learn, gather insights, and identify unique opportunities - they then rapidly iterate, relearn, and refine to achieve success. Nice writeup by Peter Sims on the Harvard Business blog - like Chris Rock we should be trying stuff to see what works and what doesn’t, and then focus on the things that do. Secondbrain - All Your Content. Seems to sum it up. I'm T...