Tag Archives: eBooks

Hacking the book – a quick overview of Book Hackday

I  went to the Book Hackday on Saturday that was supported and organised by the Creative Industries iNet; Electric Bookshop; Geekcamp; idno; Free Word; and Perera. I’d been looking forward to this event, though with some trepidation. It sounds like I took the sensible option of walking from the bus stop over to Clerkenwell but I do like walking […]

May 17, 2011 – 7:31 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Programming, projects, publishing | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Never ending death of the book

Devin Coldewey has an intriguing post over on Crunchgear regarding the Google Books project. Google have digitised some books. Just one or two. Like many other people, I find the project useful for finding information and books I’d never come across or lost somewhere. Sometimes I’ll buy the book, sometimes I just need a bit […]

August 15, 2010 – 7:06 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Open Knowledge | Tagged | Comments (1)

Mashing up the present – Elsevier dips toe into Article of the Future

ReadWriteWeb has an article on Elsevier’s Article of the Future. As commentators sense, this appears to be a concentration of curent technologies. Also, as one commentator has mentioned, Elsevier has an expensive paywall around them and true innovation would be allowing the articles to be published for free (as in speech and beer), especially if […]

July 26, 2009 – 9:32 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged , | Comments (2)