| Booktrack Thinks E-Books Need Sound Effects and Soundtracks PCWorld (blog) New York startup Booktrack is gunning for exactly this by adding musical scores and ambient noises to e-books. Booktrack, which is partially funded by PayPal founder Peter Thiel of utopian island fame, adds synchronized soundtracks to ordinary e-books ... | ||
| NASA Fiction Takes Flight With Tor/Forge Books Huffington Post Thanks to a new collaboration with NASA, scifi publisher Tor/Forge Books is bringing its authors a little closer to astronomical reality. According to their blog, a series of "NASA inspired Works of Fiction" will result from teaming up their authors ... | ||
| CampusBooks.com Report: Even with E-Books, Not Comparing Costs Students Cash MarketWatch (press release) Now, they're the first to offer that same kind of cost-saving search for digital textbooks, comparing prices from Barnes & Noble, CourseSmart, Textbooks.com, Kno, Cengage Brain, Amazon Kindle, Boundless Learning and eBooks.com in one easy website and ... | ||
| Author Says eBooks Will Hurt Authors Because Of Royalty Rates Techdirt The default settings come to something around 9% for hardcopy books. That same default setting foreBooks? Roughly 55% in royalty for the creator. Creators offering up eBooks on the Kindle DirectPublishing platform can expect their royalties to start ... | ||
| Libri Grant provides nearly $1500 worth of children's books to library State Gazette Several boxes of new, hardcover children's books arrived at McIver's Grant Public Library on Thursday as part of the Libri Foundation's Books for Children program. The shipment - valued at $1408.19 - was purchased through the grant by the Friends of ... | ||
| An Awesome Startup Launched Today That Could Change How You Read Books Forever San Francisco Chronicle Like movies have soundtracks, now books can have soundtracks. "It's difficult to imagine a movie with no soundtrack. Yet, until today, the technology did not exist to synchronize music and sound within an e-book," Paul Cameron, Booktrack's co-founder ... | ||
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| On the Books Aug. 24: Stephen King producing left-leaning radio show, 'Notting ... Entertainment Weekly ++ Booktrack (available in Apple's App Store) melds music and reading by setting soundtracks to e-books. Its first soundtrack-enhanced book will be The Power of Six by Pittacus Lore. ++ Do spelling and formatting errors in ebooks drive you nuts? ... | ||
| Withey: Books start off in young mouths but graduate to young minds Edmonton Journal One might assume babies and books do not mix, but of course this is not the case. Early literacy enriches children's vocabulary and teaches them vital skills, like how hold a book, how to recognize the shapes of letters and how to tell a story. ... | ||
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| Bad Ideas: Booktrack Adds Sound Effects And Music to Books Wired News The books are available for the iPhone and iPad (Android coming soon), and come with added ambient effects, spot sound FX and a musical score. The software tracks you as you read (a distracting little widget constantly descends in the margin) and plays ... | ||
| HP to Present Digital Publishing Solutions at Frankfurt Book Fair What They Think "We are really looking forward to exhibiting at The Frankfurt Book Fair this year," said Paul Randall, EMEA Publishing Market Manager, HP. "The rise of digitally printed books has opened new market opportunities and revenue streams for many publishers ... | ||
| Blio Now Available on Android Smartphones and Tablets PR Newswire (press release) Baker & Taylor, the world's largest distributor of print and digital books powers Blio's Android digital storefront, which includes millions of paid and free titles directly from the application, offering a seamless buying and reading experience. ... | ||
| Free children's books from around the world — Crooked Timber By Eszter Hargittai They have books available in full for free from all over the world in their original languages (like Hungarian, Mongolian, Arabic, German, etc.). In addition to offering these books in their original language, they're also working on ... Crooked Timber | ||
| Books on Books – Christoph Schifferli - manystuff.org By manystuff In conjunction with the New York Art Book Fair, the exhibition Books on Books offers an insight into Christoph Schifferli's collection of artists' books. The exhibition examines both the image of booksand their representation in ... manystuff.org — Graphic Design... | ||
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| Error-Free E-books Will Come When Cars Can Drive Themselves By The Huffington Post News Editors Publishing Perspectives: Books are a wonderful form of addiction. Last year my addiction increased when I became an e-book reader. Now about half of what I read is in e-book form. Read the whole story: Publishing Perspectives ... The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | ||
| Wednesday Reading: Some E-Books To Get Soundtracks - NYTimes.com By By ANN CARRNS Some e-books will get soundtracks, gaps seen in cellphone service after east coast earthquake, non-alcoholic beer aids in marathon recovery and other consumer-focused news from The New York Times. Bucks |
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