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.
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Voilà, cela a pris un peu de temps (il y a une seconde édition à préparer…), et en attendant une petite refonte du site pour vous présenter les choses à venir, un dernier billet pour vous informer de la mise en ligne des Causeries, que vous étiez quelques-uns à nous avoir demandé.
Days With My Father -- Days With My Father is a son's photo journal of his aging father's last years. Following the death of his mother, photographer Phillip Toledano was shocked to learn of the extent of his father's severe memory loss. He started a blog on which he posted photographs and accompanying reflections on his father's changing state. Through sometimes sad, often funny, and always loving observations, we follow Toledano as he learns to reconcile the elderly man living in a twilight of half memories with the ambitious and handsome young man he occasionally still glimpses. Days With My Father is an honest and moving reflection about coming to terms with an aging parent.
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所謂『綠光』是一種幸福之光，至悲喜極的剎那之光。它必須在某種適當的地理和天侯的條件下，落日在全部跌進了海面地平線之臨前的一剎那(一秒鐘的幾分之幾罷)，我們用肉眼可見到的由黃橙變紫青，再變為最後的絕美的一剎那的綠輝！
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A quick reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. Handy for the desk, the TDR contains over a thousand facts on typography.
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Andy Adams, the creative juice behind the online magazine Flak Photo recently contacted me about a “crowd-sourced” blog posting relating to photobooks, in conjunction with Resolve, the Livebooks blog. Was I game in posting something on my own blog? Sure. I’m always game for a discussion about photobooks.
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A 134-page, fully illustrated catalogue edited by Joe Earle and published by Yale University Press provides the historical, cultural, and ideological context for Serizawa's unique oeuvre in six essays written by leading Japanese and American scholars of 20th-century Japanese art and literature.
Modern Japan, the second largest economy in the world, is a land of contradictions. Home to some of the most sophisticated technology and manufacturing, it also has communities whose daily life has changed little in the last five hundred years. It is a land of great beauty, both in the landscape and in its celebrations, festivals, and traditional arts.
Christien Meindertsma has spent three years researching all the products made from a single pig. Amongst some of the more unexpected results were: Ammunition, medicine, photo paper, heart valves, brakes, chewing gum, porcelain, cosmetics, cigarettes, conditioner and even bio diesel.
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"Coney Island " photographies de Baptiste Lignel et Johnny Miller. Texte de Bruce et Sophie Gilden. 64 pages, 38 euros. Disponible en librairie et auprès de l'éditeur sur www.transphotographic.com. - Baptiste Lignel et Johnny Miller sont tous deux membres fondateurs d'Otra Vista, coopérative de photographes, fondée en 2001, dédiée à la photographie documentaire. www.otra-vista.com - Voir le livre en mouvement sur le site du collectif Otravista : http://www.otra-vista.com/coney-island/
Starting on 18th March, Penguin UK is launching its most ambitious digital writing project to date. In collaboration with fêted alternate reality game designers Six to Start, Penguin has challenged some of its top authors to create new forms of story - designed specially for the internet.
As a child of the 80s, the Choose Your Own Adventure books were a fixture of my rainy afternoons. My elementary school library kept a low, fairly unmaintained-looking shelf of them hidden in one of its back corners. Whether this non-marquee placement was an attempt by the librarians to deemphasize the books in favor of ‘serious’ (children’s) literature or was simply my good luck I still haven’t worked out. But it meant there was a place that I could retreat to and dive into unfamiliar worlds without distraction.
L’architecture japonaise est enchanteresse : harmonie entre jardins et bâtisses, élégance des styles, raffinement des décorations, perfection des détails… L’envoûtement s’opère à son apparente fragilité qui fait naître un sentiment d’impermanence. Le message délivré est saisissant : racontant l’éphémère, cette architecture nargue les siècles d’un éternel éclat.
some books leave us free and some books make us free - emerson
Voici une série d'albums qui renoue avec la tradition des livres de contes d'autrefois. Les contes de Jataka font partie des patrimoines indien et tibétain, et se transmettent de génération en génération depuis plus de deux mille ans.
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