Reti Medievali E-book is the first Italian initiative for an integrated multiformat publication of essays and texts on medieval history. The scope of RM E-book is to encourage a different and larger diffusion of original contributions by providing unrestricted access via the Internet to them.
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A Life Exposed - Kindle edition by Beverly Schlechter. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Life Exposed.
Amazon's Kindle can do a lot more than just buy and read Amazon-sold e-books. This is often a surprise. I usually wind up in conversations where someon
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Site is a combination of discussion board, blog, wiki, and probably some other things -- includes a huge repository of ebooks in several formats. Of particular interest to Kindle users, the downloadable mobipocket guide is a .mobi format hyperlinked index of all kindle/mobi compatible books.
As described by Lifehacker.com: "Mangle is a handy tool for formatting your Manga and comic collections for easy reading on your Kindle. It includes page sorting, downsampling, and auto rotation for fuss-free reading."
Amazon.com this morning announced that it is expanding its self-service Kindle Digital Text Platform worldwide, giving more authors and publishers the chance to ...
"Bits of destruction" is a phrase Fred Wilson uses to describe the destructive part of "creative destruction" brought on by digitization. We hear a lot about the destruction wrought on the newspaper business. A more interesting and nuanced wave is now hitting the book publishing business. Actually, it is three waves: the digitization of back catalogs, e-books, and print on demand. However this plays out, a lot of people will be affected, but the way in which it will play out is not at all obvious. This is too big a subject for one post, so read this as an introduction to a multi-post investigation.
In the fine print that you "agree" to, Amazon and Sony say you just get a license to the e-books—you're not paying to own 'em, in spite of the use of the term "buy." Digital retailers say that the first sale doctrine—which would let you hawk your old Harry Potter hardcovers on eBay—no longer applies. Your license to read the book is unlimited, though—so even if Amazon or Sony changed technologies, dropped the biz or just got mad at you, they legally couldn't take away your purchases. Still, it's a license you can't sell.
We are happy/disappointed to report that the paid NYT version isworsethan the free one: The layout is just as clumsy as the web browser version, if not more so. The real problem: Since the paid version is automatically beamed to your reader once a day,
The bottom line:With its free built-in wireless capabilities and PC-free operation, Amazon's Kindle holds a distinct advantage over Sony's Reader and is a promising evolution of the electronic book--but Amazon needs to bring down the pricing for both th
(The Kindle gets as many as 30 hours of reading on a charge, and recharges in two hours.) And, to soothe the anxieties of print-culture stalwarts, in sleep mode the Kindle displays retro images of ancient texts, early printing presses and beloved author
Et c’est bien là où ce produit est révolutionnaire :il élimine deux sources de problèmes (l’ordinateur et les opérateurs de téléphonie). Comprenez par là que dès lors où vous devez relier un terminal à votre ordinateur, tout se complique
It's this decidedlyold-fashionedexperience - this pre-Web experience - that Bezos says he sought to replicate with Kindle, Amazon's pricey new ebook. No reading-by-committee. No the-crowd-is-the-author rigmarole. No comments from the always-on peanut ga
“J’adore me poser sur un fauteuil confortable pour une longue lecture. A mesure que je me relaxe sur le fauteuil je me détends également dans les mots, les histoires et les idées de l’auteur. Le livre physique est un objet si élégant qu’il
No doubt about it: today the Amazon Kindle got the spotlight. Today onBoing Boing Gadgets, Ilivebloggedthe launch, gave myfirst impressions, and then gave it a perfunctory (but accurate, I hope)review.
Francis Pisani( etAldus, dans un commentaire de la première version de ce billet auquel manquait cette première définition) nousle rappellentl’apprennent : Le verbe “to kindle” se traduit par “allumer un feu”, “faire éclore un sentiment
Oh, come now, like you thought theworld's largest book retailer(online) -- which just started peddling digital video under theUnboxbrand -- wasn't going to go head to head withSony's Readeron an e-book device and service?
Amazon's Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore. Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind's most divine creations: the book itself. — "Technology," computer pioneer Alan Kay once said, "is anything that was invented after you were
(The Kindle gets as many as 30 hours of reading on a charge, and recharges in two hours.) And, to soothe the anxieties of print-culture stalwarts, in sleep mode the Kindle displays retro images of ancient texts, early printing presses and beloved author