Cool idea. At first I didn't understand all of them, how you're supposed to convert them mentally to three-dimensional pictures to get what she's "dreaming".
Friday, August 06, 2010
Mila’s Daydreams
Mila’s Daydreams, photo series.
Cool idea. At first I didn't understand all of them, how you're supposed to convert them mentally to three-dimensional pictures to get what she's "dreaming".
Cool idea. At first I didn't understand all of them, how you're supposed to convert them mentally to three-dimensional pictures to get what she's "dreaming".
Thursday, August 05, 2010
HP publishes (updated)
Digital mags, a new, fierce battleground.
Backer said:
HP will publish and monetize your magazine, but at the moment they insist it be given away free for the iPad: that's almost British in its spirit of compromise.
You can make your own mag, the digital edition is free, the paper version sold for a premium price, necessitated by print-on-demand prices.
I doubt anybody will get rich on this, but it might be fun for some.
Update:
It is looking like the free issues are only available in their (also free) iPad app. But then there are many many of them. An interesting development that the Kindle and the iPad have also become keys to getting a lot of free reading material, which either is not on the web or is just better organized and formatted, and easier to find on the smaller devices.
Of course much of the free material is only bait to lure people to the new platform. But it is going to continue for a while for sure. And then it'll be a bit of a trick to get people to pay for it, if they have gotten used to free, like we did with the web.
I do hope that some kind of professional platform develops on tablets, it'll help to get people to work to create professional-quality material.
They say though that the Wall Street Journal has 1.1M online subscribers, that's not peanuts, especially as they save printing and distribution cost compared to the paper version. So I think it's doable.
Backer said:
HP will publish and monetize your magazine, but at the moment they insist it be given away free for the iPad: that's almost British in its spirit of compromise.
You can make your own mag, the digital edition is free, the paper version sold for a premium price, necessitated by print-on-demand prices.
I doubt anybody will get rich on this, but it might be fun for some.
Update:
It is looking like the free issues are only available in their (also free) iPad app. But then there are many many of them. An interesting development that the Kindle and the iPad have also become keys to getting a lot of free reading material, which either is not on the web or is just better organized and formatted, and easier to find on the smaller devices.
Of course much of the free material is only bait to lure people to the new platform. But it is going to continue for a while for sure. And then it'll be a bit of a trick to get people to pay for it, if they have gotten used to free, like we did with the web.
I do hope that some kind of professional platform develops on tablets, it'll help to get people to work to create professional-quality material.
They say though that the Wall Street Journal has 1.1M online subscribers, that's not peanuts, especially as they save printing and distribution cost compared to the paper version. So I think it's doable.
List of common misconceptions
List of common misconceptions, a long and eclectic, but interesting Wikipedia article.
Time Inc. Frustrated by Apple Over iPad Subscription Issue
Time Inc. Frustrated by Apple Over iPad Subscription Issue, article.
This is puzzling, actually. I wonder if Apple has a solid reason for this and similar instances (though there are actually a few customers, like Amazon, who are allowed to sell from their app), or if it is just their control-freakishness? Everybody wants subscriptions, it's convenient for readers and profitable for publishers, so surely it would be to Apple's advantage to work out some kind of deal with huge customers like Time.
Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes but would pay Time Inc. directly. But Apple rejected the app at the last minute, forcing the Time Warner (TWX) unit to sell single copies, using iTunes as a middleman...
This is puzzling, actually. I wonder if Apple has a solid reason for this and similar instances (though there are actually a few customers, like Amazon, who are allowed to sell from their app), or if it is just their control-freakishness? Everybody wants subscriptions, it's convenient for readers and profitable for publishers, so surely it would be to Apple's advantage to work out some kind of deal with huge customers like Time.
Murdoch: iPad Key to Paid News Online
Murdoch: iPad Key to Paid News Online, news post.
Beats me, but at least it's a rather strange argument. How can information want anything? People want something for information, and different people want different things.
Information, according to the argument, wants to be free.
From Mr. Murdoch’s perspective, that notion is wrong, and people will pay for their online news. “The argument that information wants to be free is only said by those who want it for free,” he said.
From Mr. Murdoch’s perspective, that notion is wrong, and people will pay for their online news. “The argument that information wants to be free is only said by those who want it for free,” he said.
Beats me, but at least it's a rather strange argument. How can information want anything? People want something for information, and different people want different things.
Wednesday, August 04, 2010
Forty billionaires halved
Article.
Forty!! I have to admit, I did not see this one coming. There's a new wind blowing for sure.
Forty billionaires today agreed to donate at least half of their fortunes to charity, as part of “The Giving Pledge” program launched earlier this year by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Forty!! I have to admit, I did not see this one coming. There's a new wind blowing for sure.
E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon
E-Books Top Hardcovers at Amazon, NYT article.
(And the upcoming Kindle 3 is even cheaper, for the wifi model.)
OK, we don't know how the figures compare to paperback sales, which surely are quite another story, but still this seems remarkable to happen this early.
Book lovers mourning the demise of hardcover books with their heft and their musty smell need a reality check, said Mike Shatzkin...
Hey, here is a business idea (I just want 5% of the gross, thanks!): somebody should make a Kindle case which is like a harcover book, complete with a dozen paper pages (replaceable) in the front, and the smell of offset ink...
Perhaps one could buy old hardcover books by the gross, and hollow out half of them to fit the Kindle 3. I'm only half kidding about this.
In that time, Amazon said, it sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there is no Kindle edition.
[...] The figures do not include free Kindle books [...]
The growth rate of Kindle sales tripled after Amazon lowered the price of the device in late June to $189 from $259, Amazon said.
[...] The figures do not include free Kindle books [...]
The growth rate of Kindle sales tripled after Amazon lowered the price of the device in late June to $189 from $259, Amazon said.
(And the upcoming Kindle 3 is even cheaper, for the wifi model.)
OK, we don't know how the figures compare to paperback sales, which surely are quite another story, but still this seems remarkable to happen this early.
Book lovers mourning the demise of hardcover books with their heft and their musty smell need a reality check, said Mike Shatzkin...
Hey, here is a business idea (I just want 5% of the gross, thanks!): somebody should make a Kindle case which is like a harcover book, complete with a dozen paper pages (replaceable) in the front, and the smell of offset ink...
Perhaps one could buy old hardcover books by the gross, and hollow out half of them to fit the Kindle 3. I'm only half kidding about this.
Tooled leather case
As you know, I'm getting tonnes and tonnes of requests for more posts about Apple products, particularly the iPad and its accessories, and they are not falling on deaf ears, trust me. :-)
It's not hard to find a variety of iPad covers. Here is a special case. As it were.
(He also makes them for the Kindle.)
Obviously a luxury item at $130. But then, many people consider it nothing to use such an amount in an evening in town, burning braincells with overpriced alcohol. (Of course, most of those same people would think you're insane to use that money on an ebook cover. But hey, they have their addictions, and I have mine.) (I'm not saying I'll get one of these. Probably not, though the designs are cute.)
It's not hard to find a variety of iPad covers. Here is a special case. As it were.
(He also makes them for the Kindle.)
Obviously a luxury item at $130. But then, many people consider it nothing to use such an amount in an evening in town, burning braincells with overpriced alcohol. (Of course, most of those same people would think you're insane to use that money on an ebook cover. But hey, they have their addictions, and I have mine.) (I'm not saying I'll get one of these. Probably not, though the designs are cute.)
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