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Michel Roland-Guill

Announcing Kindle Worlds - 1 views

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    "New stories inspired by books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games people love. Kindle Worlds Graphic Get ready for Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties. Amazon Publishing has secured licenses from Warner Bros. Television Group's Alloy Entertainment for Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and The Vampire Diaries, with licenses for more Worlds on the way. "
Michel Roland-Guill

Kindle paperwhite : l'effroyable catastrophe - 0 views

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    "@Thierry Merci pour ce test: j'attendrai la prochaine génération de liseuse retro-éclairée. Le poids et la réactivité sont essentiels effectivement. @Hubert La partie est peut-être jouée effectivement mais ce serait alors dommage. Je ne suis pas raisonnable: j'ai une liseuse et une tablette, plus exactement, depuis peu, une tablette 7 pouces et effectivement pendant un temps je me suis demandé si ma liseuse n'était pas devenue inutile. Et bien non: la liseuse reste le "lieu" de la lecture (annotatrice éventuellement). Trois raisons: - le poids (et la taille): je l'ai toujours dans une poche intérieure de mes vestes, je l'oublie lorsque je n'en ai pas besoin; - la 3G Amazon qui me donne partout la possibilité de charger mes livres, en acheter éventuellement, et les articles que j'envoie sur le Kindle via klip.me; - la faible connectivité (à l'importante nuance supra): je sais que lorsque je prend la liseuse je vais lire, pas jeter un coup d'oeil à mes mails ou à Facebook, etc. A quoi en rajouter une 4e: le prix, pas seulement au moment de l'achat mais dans l'usage quotidien, lorsque je sors ma liseuse je ne sors pas un luxueux machin qui exciterait l'envie autour de moi (dans le tram, dans la rue, etc.) et je n'ai pas le stress du risque de l'oublier dans un café, dans le train, etc. La partie semble jouée effectivement (et du coup il semble que Bezos ait bien joué avec sa tablette Fire) mais je ne peux m'empêcher d'espérer que ce ne soit pas tout à fait bouclé: http://www.idboox.com/economie-du-livre/450-000-readers-vendus-en-allemagne/"
Michel Roland-Guill

Before the Kindle Fire, Some Misfires - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Nicholas Carr, now best known for “The Shallows,” a book critical of the Internet, said the Kindle would never succeed because, unlike the iPod, there was little content available for it.
Michel Roland-Guill

The Best Device For Reading Is Still the Phone In Your Pocket - 0 views

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    For long-time book lovers, reading on an electronic device can be disorienting experience. The most obvious choice for those going down the e-book path is a device like the Kindle, completely and utterly dedicated to emulating the traditional expe...
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    For long-time book lovers, reading on an electronic device can be disorienting experience. The most obvious choice for those going down the e-book path is a device like the Kindle, completely and utterly dedicated to emulating the traditional expe...
Michel Roland-Guill

- How We Will Read: Clay Shirky - 0 views

  • Publishing is not evolving. Publishing is going away. Because the word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.
  • The question is, what are the parent professions needed around writing? Publishing isn’t one of them. Editing, we need, desperately. Fact-checking, we need. For some kinds of long-form texts, we need designers.
  • for all that I didn’t like the original Kindle, one of its greatest features was that you couldn’t get your email on it
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  • The endless gratification offered up by our devices means that the experience of reading in particular now becomes something we have to choose to do.
  • When people hear “social reading,” they think that it is proximate sociability on the device in real-time. But let’s not necessarily jam the social bit into the experience of reading. The explosion of conversation around those kinds of works is best done after the fact. The phrase “social reading” often causes people to misunderstand what it is.
Michel Roland-Guill

affordance.info: Kind(le) of a(n I)pad : du passé faisons tablette rase. - 1 views

  • C'est là encore le message que semble nous adresser Steve Jobs avec son iPad : ne pas mettre la lecture au centre, à l'isoloir, mais la laisser là où elle s'épanouit (et se vend aussi le mieux ...), c'est à dire dans la périphérie de l'ensemble de nos pratiques culturelles connectées. 
Michel Roland-Guill

Young adult readers 'prefer printed to ebooks' | Books | theguardian.com - 0 views

  • Mitchell said that qualitative comments about preferring physical books included things like "I collect", "I like the smell", and "I want full bookshelves". "Books are status symbols, you can't really see what someone has read on their Kindle,"
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