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Первый FAQ по Google Editions
Google Editions is an upcoming paid access product that will allow consumers to easily purchase and read digital editions of books. Consumers will be able to preview a book, as they do today in Google Books, and will also have the option to purchase its Google Edition. After purchase, the book will live in the consumer's online bookshelf, available to be accessed and read on most devices with internet access and a web browser; as well as on supported partner devices (to be announced during our public launch). Today it is possible for users to view a limited percentage of each book submitted to Google Books by you. With the launch of Google Editions in 2010, you as the rightsholder will be able to choose to sell full access to your books directly to consumers. We're planning to sell these Google Editions in the near future through the Google Books site, as well as through retailer partners. Как и ожидалось, Google, защищая копирайт, строит walled garden. Posted via web from v_x |
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Apple готовит платформу для rich media книг
Sent to you via Google ReaderApple Cooks Up Rich Interactive eBooks With PastryKitThere was a lot of discussion earlier this week about the discovery (via Daring Fireball) of a new Apple JavaScript framework, used to implement the iPhone User Guide (link for iPhone users). The PastryKit framework enables HTML-based content with a more iPhone-native UI: full screen support, fixed-position toolbars, and native-feel scrolling. Much of the speculation focused on implications for mobile app development. But looking at PastryKit as just an "iPhone Web app library" misses a key point: the iPhone User Guide is not an application but a rich interactive eBook. Thus PastryKit (and the related TuneKit framework for iTunes LP) are very likely tip-offs to the format underpinnings of Apple's widely rumored plans to "reboot publishing" in conjunction with the pervasively rumored "iPad tablet" device. It's significant that this approach is, at its core, not Apple-proprietary but rather Web standards-based, and conceptually consistent with the epub eBook format standard. As such it may end up setting direction for the industry as a whole. It's clear that rich media and interactivity will, over time, be integral to eBooks and other digital publications. I.e., digital books will not just be digital equivalents of paper books, but will evolve into new kinds of mixed media. Timo Hannay recently wrote a clever self-referential Posted via email from v_x |
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