Self-Publishing Grabs Huge Market Share From Traditional Publishers | David Gaughran
http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/04/12/self-publishing-grabs-huge-market-share-from-traditional-pu
30% of the top-selling e-books on Amazon are self-published, beating out the biggest authors from the largest publishing houses in the world (...) self-publishers have captured 25% of the US e-book market.
The Technium: I’ll Pay You to Read My Book
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2013/01/ill_pay_you_to.php
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium//Pay%20To%20Read.jpg
If a reader is given credit for reading the book, then he/she would earn more than they paid for the book. For example, if they paid $5 for the ebook, they would get back $6, thus earning $1 for reading the book. Not only did the book not cost them anything, but they made money reading the book. If they read it.
Games Workshop trademark bullying goes thermonuclear: now they say you can’t use “space marine” in science fiction
http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/games-workshop-trademark-bully.html
For years, there have been stories about Games Workshop being trademark bullies and sending threats to people who use the term “space marine” in connection with games. But now that they’ve started publishing ebooks, Games Workshop has begun to assert a trademark on the generic, widely used, very old term “space marine” in connection with science fiction literature.
In the Future, All Space Marines Will Be Warhammer 40K Space Marines
http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10593
avec un titre et un petit extrait ce serait parfait :)
Bexar town of San Antonio in U.S. will have the world’s first library with no paper books, it uses e-books to replace paper books, readers can borrow e-book readers from the library for reading or take them to home.
Désolé je suis un newbie . Je ferais mieux la prochaine fois. Bonne journée
EU about to close eBook probe - Apple and publishers back down | TechEye
cc @fil
http://news.techeye.net/software/eu-about-to-close-ebook-probe
07 Nov 2012 09:37 | by Nick Farrell in Rome | Filed in Software
An EU anti-trust watchdog has stopped growling at Apple and four publishers after they agreed to ease price restrictions on Amazon.
The move is a victory for Amazon which wanted to sell e-books cheaper than its rivals.
A spokesman at the EU insisted that its investigation was not yet finished, but Reuters insisted that it was done and dusted. An official announcement is expected next month.
It looks like the EU accepted a deal from Apple and the publishers to let retailers set prices or discounts for a period of two years, and also to suspend “most-favoured nation” contracts for five years.
#publications-electronique #ebook #internet #e-publication #europe
The Warships of Silicon Valley | Wired Business | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/10/st_digitalworld
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/business/2012/10/st_digitalworld_f.jpg
In 2011, for instance, Google acquired 79 companies, only to shut down most of them and put their talent to work on other projects. Here’s a handy map for keeping track of all the strategic battles for people, ownership, and market share being waged across Silicon Valley today.
#google #microsoft #apple #facebook #amazon bref #tech_companies via @opironet
Une étude #ebooks et #accessibilité :
Mainstream Access to E-Books—What Works, What Doesn’t, and What Is Still Unclear
http://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm12/bm1201/bm120105.htm
Evgeny Morozov : The Naked And The TED | The New Republic
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/magazine/105703/the-naked-and-the-ted-khanna
I take no pleasure in declaring what has been obvious for some time: that TED is no longer a responsible curator of ideas “worth spreading.” Instead it has become something ludicrous, and a little sinister.
Today TED is an insatiable kingpin of international meme laundering—a place where ideas, regardless of their quality, go to seek celebrity, to live in the form of videos, tweets, and now e-books. In the world of TED—or, to use their argot, in the TED “ecosystem”—books become talks, talks become memes, memes become projects, projects become talks, talks become books—and so it goes ad infinitum in the sizzling Stakhanovite cycle of memetics, until any shade of depth or nuance disappears into the virtual void. Richard Dawkins, the father of memetics, should be very proud. Perhaps he can explain how “ideas worth spreading” become “ideas no footnotes can support.”
(...)
When they launched their publishing venture, the TED organizers dismissed any concern that their books’ slim size would be dumbing us down. “Actually, we suspect people reading TED Books will be trading up rather than down. They’ll be reading a short, compelling book instead of browsing a magazine or doing crossword puzzles. Our goal is to make ideas accessible in a way that matches modern attention spans.” But surely “modern attention spans” must be resisted, not celebrated. Brevity may be the soul of wit, or of lingerie, but it is not the soul of analysis. The TED ideal of thought is the ideal of the “takeaway”—the shrinkage of thought for people too busy to think.
(...)
The Khannas are typical of the TED crowd in that they do not express much doubt about anything. Their pronouncements about political structures are as firm and arrogant as some scientists’ pronouncements about the cognitive structures of the brain. Whatever problems lurk on the horizon are imagined primarily as problems of technology, which, given enough money, brain power, and nutritional supplements, someone in Silicon Valley should be in a position to solve. This is consistent with TED’s adoption of a decidedly non-political attitude, as became apparent in a recent kerfuffle over a short talk on inequality given by a venture capitalist—who else?—which TED refused to release for fear that it might offend too many rich people.
(...)
Another fine example of the TED mentality in the context of global affairs is Abundance, a new book co-written by Peter Diamandis, the co-founder of the Singularity University. (...)
Given TED’s disproportionate influence on a certain level of the global debate, it follows that the public at large also becomes more approving of technological solutions to problems that are not technological but political. Problems of climate change become problems of making production more efficient or finding ways to colonize other planets—not of reaching political agreement on how to limit production or consume in a more sustainable fashion.
Readlists
►http://readlists.com
What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.
via @fil
Dans la même thématique web => #ebook, il y a GrabMyBooks : http://seenthis.net/messages/55758, (qui prend la forme d’un plugin Firefox).
Another Reason Why DRM Is Bad — For Publishers | Techdirt
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120412/07212918466/another-reason-why-drm-is-bad-publishers.shtml
“Why I break DRM on e-books”: A publishing exec speaks out — paidContent
http://paidcontent.org/2012/04/24/breaking-drm-publishing-exec
By that point, I had purchased several dozen e-books from Amazon, and thanks to the fact that Amazon has Kindle apps for all major platforms I didn’t feel all that locked in. But what happens when Amazon decides not to support a platform? Or what if it rolls out new features on Kindle e-readers but doesn’t make those features available on the Kindle apps?
I had also bought an e-book from Apple and quickly realized the options there were even more limited. You’ll probably never see an iBooks app for Android, for example. I decided it was time for me to take control and not let the retailer lock me in.
Ionic review - All About Symbian
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/14495_Ionic.php
Ionic isn’t perfect, and I wouldn’t quite describe it as feature complete either. However, in the absence of more mainstream solutions, it is a worthy tool to have in your arsenal if you want to read books on your Symbian device. Just as long as you’re happy with reading from the vast range of DRM-free ePub titles that are available from places like Project Guttenberg.
I’m recommending this one – you can grab it for free in the Nokia Store.
What book publishers should learn from Harry Potter
http://gigaom.com/2012/03/27/what-book-publishers-should-learn-from-harry-potter
Rowling has chosen to do a number of interesting things with her e-books, including releasing them without digital-rights management restrictions.
PayPal impose de censurer des littératures érotiques
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/21947-paypal-impose-de-censurer-des-litteratures-erotiques.html
PayPal a décidé d’imposer aux écrivains et aux éditeurs ce qu’ils avaient le droit d’écrire ou de publier, en leur faisant savoir que certaines formes de littératures n’avaient plus droit de cité sur les plateformes de #livres électroniques qui utilisent ses services de paiement. Une nouvelle page dans l’histoire de la #censure.
Dans les coms :
Un possible éclaircissement, je ne donne pas raison à Paypal mais je tente de clarifier le merdier
– Déjà il y a les conditions générales de paypal qui ne veut RIEN avoir à faire avec les contenus adultes. Si Paypal respecte ses propres règles, il doit rejeter les transactions portant sur les matériaux adultes
– Paypal agit comme intermédiaire pour les paiements par carte bleue, et l’un des principaux organismes de carte bleue, Visa, impose lui aussi une catégorisation à part pour les biens et services adultes, nommée, accrochez-vous, « highly risky », catégorie assortie de restrictions et de contraintes. Paypal veut peut-être s’en tenir à l’écart pour avoir la paix. J’ai déjà, pour des clients, du installer des plate-formes de paiement sur site web, et dès que c’est de l’adulte, il n’y a pratiquement plus personne sur l’internet anglophone (cad : sans l’adosser à une banque de détail française avec contrat chiant, e-tpe merdeux, abonnement mensuel imposé et cher, et obligation d’avoir un compte dans la banque) qui accepte de le traiter (il y a grosso modo seulement 5 organismes assez gros pour avoir confiance : ccbill et ses 14-16% de commissions, et 4 plus petits qui coûtent moins cher mais imposent des surfacturations au moindre pépin : Epoch, zombaio, gspay, et segpay.)
En somme, il n’y a pas que Paypal, c’est l’écosystème presque entier de la carte bancaire qui met le contenu pour adulte dans une case à part, considérée comme pestiférée, avec des taux plus élevés. Apparemment, il y a aussi un risque plus élevé d’avoir des plaintes de clients assorties de demandes de remboursement, une procédure pénible qui coûte beaucoup de temps aux intermédiaires, autre raison de freiner des quatre fers.
Un autre article choppé sur le Reuters hier soir :
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/07/us-paypal-obscenity-idUSTRE82620K20120307
Economists See More Jobs for #Machines, Not People - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/24/technology/economists-see-more-jobs-for-machines-not-people.html
During the last recession, the authors write, one in 12 people in sales lost their jobs, for example. And the downturn prompted many businesses to look harder at substituting technology for people, if possible. Since the end of the recession in June 2009, they note, corporate spending on equipment and software has increased by 26 percent, while payrolls have been flat.
pour résumer je cite @latrive qui a signalé cet article : « Vieux debat, nvx chiffres : les machines nous piquent le boulot, selon 2 chercheurs du MIT »
Praxis (e)Press
http://www.praxis-epress.org
revue militante/universitaire très intéressante ; #ebooks publiés en creative commons
Praxis (e)Press seeks to publish critical works in theory and practice in several fields from a variety of different theoretical perspectives – including anarchist, anti-racist, environmentalist, feminist, marxist, postcolonial, poststructuralist, queer, situationist and socialist perspectives. Analyses that are critical and radical are understood to be part of the praxis of social and political change aimed at challenging, dismantling, and transforming prevalent relations, systems, and structures of capitalist exploitation, oppression, imperialism, neo-liberalism, national aggression, and environmental destruction.
Best Sellers - The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html
HEAVEN IS FOR REAL, by Todd Burpo with Lynn Vincent. (Thomas Nelson.) A father recounts his 3-year-old son’s encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.
Cette semaine encore, le livre hors-fiction le plus vendu aux États-Unis est « Heaven is for real ». Le New York Times a consacré un article à ce « phénomène d’édition ».
‘Heaven Is for Real,’ Boy’s Tale, Is Publishing Phenomenon - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html?_r=1
He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.
Colton’s father, Todd, has turned the boy’s experience into a 163-page book, “Heaven Is for Real,” which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Thomas Nelson, the book’s publisher, said it had broken company sales records. The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies. Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print. On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, “Heaven Is for Real” was No. 1. The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.
http://twitpic.com/5bzoaz/full
On a le droit d’avoir peur.
Les #livres électroniques format Kindle maintenant disponibles dans les #bibliothèques américaines. A priori une bonne chose, mais le dernier paragraphe révèle que les gros éditeurs commencent à aborder la mentalité d’assiégé des majors du disque.
In the case of Harper Collins, the company has stipulated that its books, once purchased by a library, can only be made available for 26 loans, before being erased permanently.
Chiffre qui doit correspondre au nombre moyen de prêts avant qu’un vrai bon livre en arbre mort ne se détériore et que la bibliothèque ne rachète le titre, mais c’est assez déprimant de les voir s’accrocher à la négation de la nature même de l’e-book.
BBC News - Kindle gets library book lending
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13155967
Une chouette liste de #font libres dans Rhino06
http://www.fadebiaye.com/read/rhino/rhino06.txt
*Sélection de caractères libres :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
¶ Open Source
TitilliumText http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/TitilliumText
Nobile http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Nobile
Aurulent-Sans http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Aurulent-Sans
Lobster http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Lobster
Miama http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Miama
Vollkorn http://friedrichalthausen.de/?page_id=411
League Gothic http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/League-Gothic
Theano Didot http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Theano-Didot
OFL Sorts Mill Goudy http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/OFL-Sorts-Mill-Goudy
NotCourierSans http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/NotCourierSans
Crimson Text http://aldusleaf.org
Molengo http://code.google.com/p/molengo-fonts/downloads/list
Neuton http://www.dafont.com/neuton.font
Tangerine http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Tangerine
Fanwood http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/17-fanwood
Cabin http://www.impallari.com/cabin
Quattrocento http://www.impallari.com/quattrocento
PT Sans & PT Serif http://www.paratype.com/public
Arvo http://files.korkork.com/index.php?/fonts/arvo
Lekton http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Lekton&subset=latin
Crushed http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Crushed&subset=latin
Buda d’Adèle Antignac http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Buda&subset=latin
UNB Pro & Office (excellent fork of Liberation Sans) http://www.marca.unb.br/unbpro-guia.php
Tiresias http://www.tiresias.org/fonts/fonts_download.htm
¶ Copyleft
Hattori-Hanzo http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Hattori-Hanzo
St-Marie : http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/st-marie
Junction Regular http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/junction-regular
Share http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Share-Regular
CPMono_V07 http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/CPMono_v07
Neighbourhood http://andychung.ca/work/neighbourhood
Claus 1.0 http://www.silviolorusso.com/sito/index.php?/projects/claus-10
Fengardo de Loïc Sander http://www.akalollip.com/blog/?p=1673
Esos Tipos de la Utem http://esostiposdelautem.cl/fuentes
Bellafonte de Loïc Sander http://www.akalollip.com/blog/?p=2541
Voici quelques éléments qui pourraient permettre de faire de beaux #livres en #HTML :
#Firefox 4 : #OpenType font feature support
►http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/11/firefox-4-font-feature-support
►http://nitens.org/taraborelli/TeXOpenType
#TeX line breaking algorithm in JavaScript
►http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset
#Césures, veuves et orphelines, class sur &…
►http://plugins.spip.net/Typographie-avancee
#Calibre - Free and Open ebook manager
http://calibre-ebook.com/about
#Sigil - #eBook editor
►http://code.google.com/p/sigil
#Bibliotype - A Simpler Page
►http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-simpler-page
►http://www.spip-contrib.net/Bibliotype
#Treesaver.js ; framework js pour magazines
http://seenthis.net/messages/14572
10 great OpenType fonts
►http://opentype.info/demo/webfontdemo.html
#readability qui « définit » ce qu’est un contenu
https://www.readability.com
La #liseuse de lekti-ecriture
►http://lekti.net/liseuse/9782916952314
PHP-#ePub
►http://www.phpclasses.org/package/6115-PHP-Create-ebook-in-EPUB-format-for-ex-Apple-iPad.html
PHPePub
►https://github.com/Grandt/PHPePub#readme
OPL’s EPUB library
►http://sourceforge.net/projects/oplsepublibrary
justinrainbow/epub
►https://github.com/justinrainbow/epub
#WeasyPrint - Converts HTML + CSS to PDF
►http://weasyprint.org
Je remets dans cette liste celle [établie par corrobori] des plugins #SPIP qui permettent d’enrichir le contenu éditorial :
– les blocs de langues, http://www.spip-contrib.net/Bouton-Changement-de-langue-pour-le-Porte-Plume
– les notes de marges, petite variante de http://www.spip-contrib.net/Plugin-Encarts
– les ref bibliographiques. http://www.spip-contrib.net/Cite-des-modeles-pour-inserer-des-references
– Le glossaire http://www.spip-contrib.net/Un-glossaire-interne-pour-vos
– TdM : http://www.spip-contrib.net/Table-des-Matieres
et des liens vers d’autres solutions :
– Boom : book and html, ►http://www.alistapart.com/articles/boom
– le CMS Lodel http://www.lodel.org
– La poule ou l’œuf ►http://www.pouleouoeuf.org
La méthode de #SPIP2LaTeX ►http://www.spip-contrib.net/Version-PDF-avec-SPIP2LaTeX consistant à offrir des modèles particuliers pour certaines choses est assez astucieuse, il faudrait sans doute la reprendre. Par exemple pour que les pages soient zoomables, on ne peut pas se limiter au 72 DPI ; on peut envisager un plugin qui ferait de <img12> une version en 150 ou 300 DPI (avec resize par le navigateur), et d’ailleurs aussi pour <math>$x=2$</math>.
Sans oublier les différents plugins de #typographie
Pour un livre, aller carrément sur :
►http://plugins.spip.net/Typographie-avancee
Ça te fait les césures, mais beaucoup plus intelligentes, et ça gère encore d’autres choses.
Du côté de Readability :
– le code javascript est du code libre, disponible là :
http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability
– forcément moins fiable, mais faute de mieux : la version PHP de Readability :
http://www.keyvan.net/2010/08/php-readability
En fait, la solution vraiment marrante serait sans doute de faire parser (via readability.js) le code par les visiteurs du site, avec un ajax qui balancerait un $.post du résultat vers le serveur, qui n’aurait plus qu’à stocker ça. Mais bon, sinon, la version PHP, je l’utilise sur #Seenthis.
Ah readability existe en PHP… le voici dans un plugin SPIP. svn ://zone.spip.org/spip-zone/plugins/readability/
Pour info, j’utilise la version PHP de Readability sur Seenthis : c’est ce qui me permet de récupérer la page distante et de la thématiser aussi précisément que possible.
@marcimat signale qu’aucun #navigateur libre ne fait encore le support des #css3-page
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-page
Et en usage sur programmer.spip.org :
http://zone.spip.org/trac/spip-zone/browser/_galaxie_/programmer.spip.org/plugin_documentation/impression.css#L84
il existe cependant une solution (non libre) #princexml qu’on peut télécharger
http://www.princexml.com
on peut la tester et l’utiliser en #SaaS à
http://docraptor.com/plans
(commentaire caduc cf Weasyprint)
Voilà j’ai porté #Bibliotype dans un #plugin #SPIP :
►http://www.spip-contrib.net/Bibliotype
démo chez moi :
http://zzz.rezo.net/?page=bibliotype&recherche=libre
Ça semble effectuer un reset général sur les styles, qui n’est pas forcément heureux quand il annule les réglages de SPIP :
– images dans le texte,
– surtout : les listes, qui n’ont plus de marqueurs, et qui ont même un interlignage différent du reste du texte,
– intertitres catastrophiques.
Pas regardé en détail, mais s’il y a un reset.css (ou similaire), alors il faut remettre à la main dans les CSS un certain nombre de choses utilisées par la maquette de SPIP.
@arno le plugin typographie avancée semble très lent… pas loin de 20s pour un texte de 20 000 signes.
@Fil Pour compléter la liste : http://scenari-platform.org est une solution libre pour créer des chaines éditoriales dont il existe un plugin (http://www.spip-contrib.net/Scenari-pour-SPIP) pour SPIP
j’ajoute des librairies de lecture/fabrication d’epub :
OPL’s EPUB library
►http://sourceforge.net/projects/oplsepublibrary
PHPePub
►https://github.com/Grandt/PHPePub#readme
* justinrainbow/epub
►https://github.com/justinrainbow/epub
