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.
Yoza Cellphone Stories
http://www.yoza.mobi/static_pages/view/14
The m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project is about using mobile phones as a way for teens to read and write. We provide mobile novels (m-novels) to read, as well as invite writing in the form of reader comments and writing competitions, all on mobile phones. Our point of departure is that South Africa is a book-poor, but mobile phone-rich society. (...) For the foreseeable future the #mobile phone, not the Kindle or iPad, is the ereader of Africa. We will exploit that to improve Africa’s literacy levels.
#ebook #afrique_du_sud #sms ?
KindleUnpack (MobiUnpack): Extracts text, images and metadata from #Kindle/#Mobi files
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61986
KindleUnpack is a set of python script that takes a Kindle/Mobipocket ebook and extracts the HTML, images and metadata contained in the ebook, and puts them in a form suitable for passing to KindleGen.
For anyone not interested in KindeGen and KF8, there’s a copy of the last version of the single-file script, #mobiunpack 0.32.
repéré par @baroug, permet de savoir à quoi ressemble un fichier mobi d’#ebook
Hint : <font size=7>
» The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! Cloud Four Blog
http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media-queries-ftw
A core tenet of #Responsive #Web_Design (RWD) is fluidity and proportion. Instead of using fixed-width layouts, we enlightened web devs and designers use percentages in our CSS. Font units aren’t pixels or points anymore, they’re percentages (typically for top-level baseline reset) or, more often, ems. And yet the vast majority of us still write width-based media queries in pixels
Compilation de billets récents autour du nouveau #livre de Evgeny Morozov
http://www.internetactu.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/clickhere-204x300.jpg L’auteur recommandait cette recension : http://bookforum.com/inprint/2001/11229
Une tribune dans le NYT
The Perils of Perfection
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/opinion/sunday/the-perils-of-perfection.html?pagewanted=all
Commentée sur @iactu
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/03/28/la-technologie-est-elle-toujours-la-solution-22-le-risque-du-solutionn
La première partie du billet :
La technologie est-elle toujours la solution ? (1/2) : le biais de l’internet-centrisme
►http://www.internetactu.net/2013/03/27/la-technologie-est-elle-toujours-la-solution-12-le-biais-de-linternet-
Une autre, traduite par le Framablog
Ouvert et fermé
►http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2013/03/25/open-closed-morozov
Série en cours sur Slate.com (j’aime bien les papiers de ce Farhad en général)
– Farhad Manjoo and Evgeny Morozov debate Morozov’s new book on “the folly of technological solutionism.”
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/features/2013/to_save_everything_click_here/to_save_everything_click_here_farhad_manjoo_and_evgeny_morozov_debate_morozov
– What Farhad Manjoo gets wrong about my book. http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/features/2013/to_save_everything_click_here/to_save_everything_click_here_what_farhad_manjoo_gets_wrong_about_my_book.htm
Blowing up Morozov’s « To Save Everything, Click Here »
http://boingboing.net/2013/04/14/blowing-up-morozovs-to-sav.html
la recension de Tim Wu dont il est question, et qui n’a pas trop aimé :
►http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/book-review-to-save-everything-click-here-by-evgeny-morozov/2013/04/12/0e82400a-9ac9-11e2-9a79-eb5280c81c63_story_1.html
Does Morozov have an alternative vision of technology’s future? Generally, he decries the search for perfect, efficient solutions and admires an inefficient, organic chaos of the kind favored by Jane Jacobs in urban design. Funny, that’s exactly what the Internet’s protocols brought to communications, as a response to the big TV networks and AT&T’s “perfect” network. The ideology behind the Internet’s protocols accepts greater inefficiency to allow for the organic life and death of applications and firms. Hence, if you had to name one technology that best serves the principles Morozov believes in, it would be easy: It is called the Internet.
Kindle Previewer
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8
Kindle Previewer is a graphical user interface tool that emulates how books display across Kindle devices and apps.
Ditching the Shoehorn: Designing #Type That Works on #ePubs, Mobi and the Web | #Design in the browser with web fonts and real content — Typecast
http://typecast.com/blog/ditching-the-shoehorn-designing-type-that-works-on-epubs-mobi-and-the-web
Designing typography that works across multiple platforms is no small task. Today, Stewart Curry of Woopie shares what he’s learned in the publishing trenches.
Comment distinguer les écrans « grand », « petit » et « moyen » en #CSS ? Bah, c’est pas facile, mais voilà une astuce…
Responsive Web Design With Physical Units | Smashing #Mobile
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/03/21/responsive-web-design-with-physical-units
Here’s the theory: In a combined query, if the ratio between the smaller of the width and height and the resolution, called a PSINET score, is higher than 5, then the result falls in the category of a physically large device. If the resulting number is lower than 5, then it is a physically small device. Devices that score very close to 5 are considered to be medium-sized.
Let’s compare two media-query declarations:
@media (min-resolution: 341dpi) and (min-width: 767px) > {
}
and
@media (max-resolution: 131dpi) and (min-width: 767px) > {
}
At first glance, this doesn’t seem like much of a separation, right? Wrong. The numbers I’ve used are specific to the HTC Windows Phone 8X (the first snippet) and the iPad 2 (the second snippet). By using the resolution query, one can basically separate physically small devices from large devices.
Book Publishers Scramble to Rewrite Their Future | Underwire | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/03/publishing-industry-next-chapter
Kindle Publishing Guidelines - AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf
http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf
<manifest>
...
<item id="cimage" media-type="image/jpeg" href="other_cover.jpg" properties="cover-image"/>
...
</manifest>
#couv ?
Modifier un EPUB pour conversion Kindle |
http://jiminypanoz.com/2011/12/10/modifier-un-epub-pour-kindle
Forrester : les propriétaires de tablettes x4 d’ici 2017 en Europe - TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/20/forrester-tablet-ownership-in-europe-to-rise-4x-in-5-years-55-of-regions
Forrester estime qu’il y aura 147 millions de tablettes en Europe d’ici 2017. Tags : internetactu2net internetactu fing
Responsive Design for Apps — Part 1
http://blog.cloudfour.com/responsive-design-for-apps-part-1
Model Type Size Display Resolution Viewport
W H W H W H
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Phone 3.17” 5.95” 5.5” 720 1280 360 640
Motorola RAZR HD Phone 2.67” 5.19” 4.7” 720 1280 360 519
Motorola Atrix HD Phone 2.75” 5.26” 4.5” 720 1280 540 812
HTC Droid DNA Phone 2.78” 5.5” 5” 1080 1920 360 640
Nexus 7 Tablet 4.72” 7.81” 7” 800 1280 600 793
Kindle Fire Tablet 4.72” 7.44” 7” 600 1024 600 819
Kindle Fire HD Tablet 5.4” 7.6” 7” 800 1280 533 731
A New Chapter - Newsweek and The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/12/23/a-new-chapter.html
Dec 24, 2012
Sometimes, change isn’t just good, it’s necessary.
The issue in your hand is the last edition of Newsweek in print. The next, in the first week of January, will be on your iPad or Kindle or phone. By late February, you will see the full evolution of the spanking-new, all-digital Newsweek Global, currently in development.
Here’s a video tribute to Newsweek’s esteemed history, 80 years of informing, exposing, explaining, enlightening, and trailblazing.
It’s been a turbulent two-year journey, culminating in our decision to leave print and take the leap into a digital future. In 2010 the 92-year-old audio tycoon Sidney Harman bought a moribund Newsweek from the Washington Post Co. for a dollar in a quixotic bid to save a legendary magazine. Shortly after, the incurable old romantic asked The Daily Beast, the news site I founded with Barry Diller’s IAC in 2008, for its hand in marriage. And it’s been a blast.
Amazon violemment critiqué par Stallman
http://stallman.org/amazon.html
Amazon’s shipping in the US is done in a sweatshop
http://act.americanrightsatwork.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3127&track=20111109_adv_amazon_pledge
More info, including paramedics standing by for workers who pass out from the heat.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-allentown-amazon-complaints-20110917,0,7937001,full.story
J’ai un gros retard dans mes lectures.
J’oubliais de dire : via http://www.framablog.org/index.php/post/2012/12/08/stallman-ubuntu-espion où Stallman analyse/critique la tentative d’Ubuntu de mettre un espion dans le lanceur qui fait remonter toutes les requêtes vers Canonical histoire de suggérer des achats sur Amazon.
Feudal Security
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.html
Some of us have pledged our allegiance to Google: We have Gmail accounts, we use Google Calendar and Google Docs, and we have Android phones. Others have pledged allegiance to Apple: We have Macintosh laptops, iPhones, and iPads; and we let iCloud automatically synchronize and back up everything. Still others of us let Microsoft do it all. Or we buy our music and e-books from Amazon, which keeps records of what we own and allows downloading to a Kindle, computer, or phone. Some of us have pretty much abandoned e-mail altogether … for Facebook.
These vendors are becoming our feudal lords, and we are becoming their vassals. We might refuse to pledge allegiance to all of them — or to a particular one we don’t like. Or we can spread our allegiance around. But either way, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to not pledge allegiance to at least one of them.
Transform A #Tablet Into An Affordable Kiosk For Your Clients | Smashing #Mobile
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/11/26/transform-tablet-affordable-kiosk-clients
Because we were working in mobile Safari on the iPad, we were able to program some cool features into the Web app. But these came with restrictions, such as:
The features would work only in portrait orientation,
The Web app had to be saved to the iPad’s home screen and launch from there,
All links in the Web app would open in a new browser tab.
We also made some other tweaks:
Hid the browser chrome (URL bar and buttons) using <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" />;
Created a bookmark icon for the home screen and linked to it using <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/path/to/icon.png" />;
Set the color of the status bar (the options are black, gray or black translucent) using <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black" />;
Made all events touch events, as opposed to hover events, to accommodate the limitations of the touchscreen.
trucs et astuces pour faire une appli « #kiosque » avec un iPad
Why is an #ebook ever riddled with typos? | The Verge
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/26/3554770/ebook-typos
Believe me, I’m dying to report specific typos, and I think this is one scenario where #crowdsourcing could be helpful, but so far, it’s just not happening.
When It Comes to Security, We’re Back to Feudalism | Wired.com
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/feudal-security
http://www.taz.de/uploads/images/684x342/bruce_schneier.20100804-14.jpg
In this new world of computing, we give up a certain amount of control, and in exchange we trust that our lords will both treat us well and protect us from harm. Not only will our software be continually updated with the newest and coolest functionality, but we trust it will happen without our being overtaxed by fees and required upgrades. We trust that our data and devices won’t be exposed to hackers, criminals, and malware. We trust that governments won’t be allowed to illegally spy on us.
Trust is our only option. In this system, we have no control over the security provided by our feudal lords. We don’t know what sort of security methods they’re using, or how they’re configured. We mostly can’t install our own security products on iPhones or Android phones; we certainly can’t install them on Facebook, Gmail, or Twitter. Sometimes we have control over whether or not to accept the automatically flagged updates – iPhone, for example – but we rarely know what they’re about or whether they’ll break anything else. (On the Kindle, we don’t even have that freedom.)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I’m not saying that feudal security is all bad. For the average user, giving up control is largely a good thing. These software vendors and cloud providers do a lot better job of security than the average computer user would. Automatic cloud backup saves a lot of data; automatic updates prevent a lot of malware. The network security at any of these providers is better than that of most home users.
Pour moi c’est surtout un texte qu’il faudrait donner à lire à tous les membres des assemblées nationales afin qu’ils comprennent comment encore une partie de leur pouvoir passe entre les mains d’institutions qui échappent à tout contrôle démocratique.
#féodalisme
#ePub Reader Software
http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/Readers.shtml
the best ePub reader:
For Windows: Digital Editions for it’s management functions and excellent ePub format support. (Sony Reader is a good choice as well.)
OS X: Digital Editions, Azardi, Calibre, or Bookworm
first gen iPhone/iPod Touch: Stanza or Bluefire
iPad/current iPhone/iPod Touch: iBooks
Android: Aldiko/Bluefire/CoolReader
Linux: CoolReader/Azardi/Bookworm
Best ePub editor:
For converting from one eBook format to another: Calibre
For converting raw source documents to ePub: Atlantis
For making nit-pickingly clean ePub books that look just how you want them to look: eCub/Sigil
For editing existing ePub books: Sigil
I love #DRM : digital restrictions management scandals do more for free software than thirty years of advocacy - http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm
Download KindleGen 2.5 - #Kindle Publishing Programs
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621
Download KindleGen 2.5
KindleGen is a command line tool used to build eBooks that can be sold through Amazon’s Kindle platform. This tool is best for publishers and individuals who are familiar with HTML and want to convert their HTML, XHTML, XML (OPF/IDPF format), or ePub source into a Kindle Book.
#convertisseur #ebooks #epub => #mobi via @booz
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
All new Kindle Fire models are ad-supported
http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/6/3298418/new-kindle-fire-hd-special-offers
Amazon’s new lineup of tablets don’t just differ from the original Kindle Fire in their hardware. Like last year’s cheapest Kindle e-reader, all three new models — that’s the Fire, the HD 7, and the HD 8.9 — will display Amazon’s “Special Offers” promotions and advertisements on their lock screens. Unlike the low-end Kindle, however, Amazon isn’t offering the devices in more expensive, ad-free models, nor is it making mention of any way to opt out for a fee.
Ce serait bien que lorsqu’on poste le lien d’un tweet, ça fasse apparaitre tout le tweet, de la même façon que lorsqu’on poste un lien youtube ça met la vidéo. #seenthis_todo
Amazon backtracks, will offer $15 opt-out for ads on Kindle Fire tablets
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-3126_7-57508986/amazon-backtracks-will-offer-$15-opt-out-for-ads-on-kindle-fire-tablet
After negative feedback on forced ads, the company reverses course and will allow users to opt-out of “Special Offer” ads — for a fee.