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"Books in Browsers is a small summit for the new generation of internet publishing companies, focusing on developers and designers who are building and launching tools for online storytelling, expression, and art. See more at http://booksinbrowsers.org/"

"For my talk at Books in Browsers 2012, I decided to explore the idea of the reading experience on the big screen. I have terrible theater karma-I'll invariably sit behind a guy with an afro, or next to a screaming baby when I got to the cinema-so some years ago I decided to save myself some aggravation and purchased a Very Large Television." Quelle pourrait être le design d'une interface de lecture sur un très grand écran ?

"My dream bookstore would sell browser-based, open, standardized, interoperable, web-enabled ebooks. But right now, customers don't know they want that. It may be that Amazon is building towards some of these features (without the ISO and W3C standards, of course, because they don't want a platform that makes it easier for customers to buy their books at other stores). Amazon is a world unto itself. And customers seem to like it that way. [...] Another thing is that we were 20-odd bookish people in the room (with more watching via webcam). And we couldn't figure it out. We are insiders - collectively, there must have been hundreds of years of experience in the book business sitting around that table. As with most cases of disruption, it isn't going to happen from inside. But the third thing I realized is that Jeff Bezos was "not a book person". He may love books, but until he founded Amazon, he didn't work in the industry. Now he actually is in the industry, and has been for 20 years. He's one of us. If a major disruption is not going to happen from inside, then "inside" includes Amazon - and any major disruption by definition will disrupt Amazon too."

"J'attends depuis l'année dernière de pouvoir tester SocialBook du pape de la « lecture sociale » (Bob Stein). Et c'est désormais possible puisque une version bêta est disponible depuis peu (sur invitation). En gros, c'est une application « en ligne » qui vous permet de charger et d'annoter simplement et nativement, de façon privative ou publique, un livre numérique au format ePub dans un navigateur web (on aura reconnu la philosophie de Books in Browser). Déjà un bon point à souligner, tant cette possibilité est encore rare."