14/06/08
Apt’s links for June 13th
- the Awesome Highlighter >> Highlight text on web pages - Wow! Super cool tool for highlighting text on a web page, and then linking to that page with the text highlighted. Should I get out more, or is this really great?
- Prediction: The Kindle Goes Down in FLAMES - Tennant: Digital Libraries - Blog on Library Journal - “Someone at the Oxford University Press seems to think that the Amazon Kindle is selling like hotcakes. All I have to say about this is: “are you on drugs?”" Fun, snarky, probably true.
- TidBITS Opinion: No, David Pogue, Ebook Piracy is Not a Given - “I’ve proved over four years that ebook piracy is not a fact of Internet nature, and I’d argue that it’s something that all authors could both control and profit from. The trick, as always, is to watch how the recording industry behaves and do the opposit
- Readers Have Their Say in the E-Publishing Debate - Pogue’s Posts - Technology - New York Times Blog - “With the advent of low-cost, high-speed OCR scanners, all one will have to do is take a band saw to the binding and then hit Scan. When this technology becomes commonplace, the ‘Bookz’ scene will take off.â€
- Publishing News - News Home Page - Support for Hachette in Amazon dispute - “Most observers feel that Hachette has the upper hand.” This is going to get very, very interesting - I Hope
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