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Although interest in ebooks is escalating, the ultimate possibilities of electronic publishing are still a topic of imaginative conversations. This video from IDEO suggests a few ways books might be expanded and enhanced using social networking, collaboration, and cross linking. The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on [...]

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein, US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955) On one level, the discussion over the environmental impact of ebooks and ebook readers, as compared to traditional books, is a little like the medieval discussions over how many angels can dance [...]

I devoted a good portion of this cloudy, humid Sunday morning digging through the attic, collecting and boxing ancient electronics gear to take to the recycling center on Monday. Ancient, in these days of accelerating product releases, is anything more than about six years old. If you’re talking about cell phones or MP3 players, you [...]

In an unapologetically wistful article for the Baltimore Sun, Garrison Keillor envisioned a future where books spring up like wildflowers, unattended by the meticulous gardening skills of editors, and the democratization of publishing will lead to a vast wasteland of uninspired, pedestrian ebooks to be read only by friends and family. As much as I [...]

Blio, Ray Kurzweil’s free software designed to overcome page display shortcomings of other ebook formats, is a dark horse running in a race that’s been going on for some time. Nonetheless, the package shows some competitive promise in the heated market in which Kindle and iPad are setting the pace. Projected to be available to [...]

Early efforts to open the market for ebooks suffered from a variety of missteps: clumsy, poorly designed readers, multiple ebook formats, no markup or note-taking capabilities, proprietary limitations, and on and on. The Kno, however, looks to have learned from the technological deficits of its predecessors, with a dual-screen tablet specifically targeted toward replacing large, [...]