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Apt’s links for September 29th
Arts and Entertainment Generic Embedded Player - HRH Ken Adam interviewed by Christopher Grayling on the art or production design. Please watch and understand (1) Stanley Kubrick and (2) Smoke and Mirrors. Ken has had an awesome, unbelievable life. Amazing - if dreadful direction of the interview itself.
The definition of irony | TeleRead: Bring the [...]
Published: September 30, 2008. Read more →
Bookkake
Just a quick one to anyone who doesn’t also read James’ excellent Booktwo; James has just launched his own, print-on-demand, “dirty books” imprint Bookkake. The imprint, which was funded by ACE long before James started working with us, does everything that we think a modern publisher should do.
That means PoD, sensible pricing, beautiful design [...]
Published: September 29, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 26th through September 27th
Turn Firefox into a screen reader with Fire Vox | 456 Berea Street -
Making money twice - (37signals) - 37 Signals tells us how much money they make from the unpaid gig.
Amazon Kindle ? Copy me happy - Be afraid publishers. Very afraid; this be the guy behind the Pirate Bay.
Published: September 28, 2008. Read more →
eBook Haters - The New Luddites?
I was in Waterstones’ flagship London Piccadilly store yesterday, and decided to take a look at their in-store presentation of the Sony Reader. (And before you accuse me of being a hater, I am a fan of electronic books, despite some people’s interpretation of previous posts.)
The good news is that I was told that Waterstones [...]
Published: September 25, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 16th
Mark Porter » Blog Archive » wsj.com - The Guardian’s Art Director (Digital?) on the new WSJ
Have We Reached the End of Book Publishing As We Know It? — New York Magazine - “But at least with two major chains, you can play one against the other. Even in its weakened state, Borders can still [...]
Published: September 17, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 14th
MediaFuturist: Free Music 2.0 book version for the iPhone now available, using the cool Instapaper App - Lovely. Books via Instapaper
Swype keyboard for touchscreens - (37signals) - Yes. This looks nuts, but brilliant. The guy behind it has form as well - he invented T9, predictive text.
Published: September 15, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 12th
Google’s First Steps - “Starting Monday, we?ll have 6 full-time employees. This week we have 5, last week we had 4. I think it?s going to keep growing at that pace for a while.” From way back when.
Font or Typeface? | The FontFeed - In case of any doubt. Or feeling out of sorts, etc [...]
Published: September 13, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 10th through September 11th
What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - I linked last week to an interview with the guy behind these infographics. Who said newspapers were dead?
Eepybird’s Sticky Note Experiment on Vimeo - Welcome back J. I’ve made a few notes to fill you in on what has happened since you went [...]
Published: September 12, 2008. Read more →
Production Stills: Funnest
We’ve been working on an exceptional, frankly fairly nuts, project for the past couple of months. I’m not going to say much at this stage, other than (1) it’s for 4th Estate, (2) it’s a short done entirely in stop-motion animation (3) yes, we have built 6 sections of a city made entirely out of [...]
Published: September 10, 2008. Read more →
Apt’s links for September 9th
Marco.org: Taking apart the ?e-ink? Esquire cover. (video by… - Cough. “I just want to point out that what you?re looking at is not e-ink. It?s a film transparency that?s backlit with a segmented electroluminescent backlight. C?mon, Esquire, what the hell? This would have been pretty cool if you didn?t make a big fuss over [...]