PUBLIC MARKS with tags books & ui

As the publishing industry wobbles and Kindle sales jump, book romanticists cry themselves to sleep. But really, what are we shedding tears over?

The newspaper industry is falling over themselves in the fight to come up with a ever more impressive newspaper tablet. The problem is that they miss the point completely (as I wrote about in "The Future of News, Tablets, and Business Models").

Earlier this week Penguin presented their vision for how they could translate their book into the ebook format. Or rather, how they can really make us of digital publishing to create much better books.

A mi-chemin entre la bande dessinée papier et le film d’animation, la solution Ave!Comics donne une nouvelle dimension à la lecture de bandes dessinées numériques sur ordinateurs, iPods ou télephones portables. Consultation, achat, échange et lecture nomade ne sont que quelques-uns des aspects d’une plateforme révolutionnaire dévoilée en janvier 2009 à l’occasion du Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d’Angoulême.