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"An element of our mission at the Library of Congress is to collect the story of America and to acquire collections that will have research value. So when the Library had the opportunity to acquire an archive from the popular social media service Twitter, we decided this was a collection that should be here. In April 2010, the Library and Twitter signed an agreement providing the Library the public tweets from the company's inception through the date of the agreement, an archive of tweets from 2006 through April 2010. Additionally, the Library and Twitter agreed that Twitter would provide all public tweets on an ongoing basis under the same terms. The Library's first objectives were to acquire and preserve the 2006-10 archive; to establish a secure, sustainable process for receiving and preserving a daily, ongoing stream of tweets through the present day; and to create a structure for organizing the entire archive by date. This month, all those objectives will be completed. We now have an archive of approximately 170 billion tweets and growing. The volume of tweets the Library receives each day has grown from 140 million beginning in February 2011 to nearly half a billion tweets each day as of October 2012."

"Day One est un magazine, c'est certain, et ancré dans le monde numérique : la nouvelle revue littéraire pour Kindle, basée sur les fictions courtes et la poésie. Lancé par Amazon Publishing, ce projet a sorti son numéro 1 le 30 octobre, avec une ligne éditoriale simple : présenter chaque semaine un écrivain et un poète. La formule coûte 19,99 $ pour abonnement annuel, avec 52 numéros."

"A couple of weeks ago, I went to a w3c workshop about annotations on the web. It was an interesting day, hearing from academics, implementers, archivists and publishers about the ways they want to annotate things on the web, in the world, and in libraries. The more I listened, the more I realised that this was what the web is about. Each page that links to another one is an annotation on it."

"Comment fabrique-t-on un livre numérique aujourd'hui ? [...] Avec l'idée - en tout cas, pour moi - qu'on ne fabrique qu'un objet hybride amené à évoluer en permanence, qui finira sans doute par se confondre dans le web, mais pas tout de suite, car ceux qui font vont toujours plus vite que ceux qui utilisent, et les habitudes de lecture sont comme imprimées en nous, et c'est tout un bouillonnement socio-culturel qui émerge de ce nouveau sport : lire en numérique. Avec la prise de conscience et le recul nécessaires : le livre que l'on a fabriqué il y a un an est déjà une antiquité. On parle de pérennité, oui. Oui, si vous l'avez bien fabriqué, votre livre sera pérenne, c'est-à-dire lisible. Mais par le mot « antiquité », je veux dire que la technique aura évoluée et avec elle, les possibilités, les chemins, la réflexion éditoriale, le code, bref : les composantes de votre livre auront gagné en force et pertinence, mais faudra-t-il encore savoir les agencer correctement, les utiliser à bon escient."

"Vous trouverez ici une présentation rapide pour les Talent Days du pôle Imaginove sur le numérique. L'idée générale, dans le prolongement d'une première discussion sur le sujet à Blend Web Mix, est de se demander si finalement si le numérique ne servait pas à grand chose ? Nous sommes depuis longtemps passés dans une ère post-internet. Même si le village global n'existe pas, certaines promesses ont été tenues, certaines on fait pschiiit et beaucoup sont caduques. Dans le bruit de fond entretenu par tous, les industries historiques comme les nouveaux pure players, semblent engagés dans une course qui mobilise peu leurs clients. Et si on reparlait de valeur ajoutée ?"

"Si je fais cet article aujourd'hui, c'est en fait en pensant à l'ami Marc Jahjah qui s'intéresse [...] au process/workflow de la création du livre numérique, à la relation auteur/codeur, bref à ce que j'expérimente all day long chez Publie.net. Comme ça fait du bien parfois de faire une pause dans les projets en cours, de mettre à plat et d'expliquer ce qu'on fait, nous autres codeurs cachés derrière ce nouveau genre de bouquins, et comme finalement je lis beaucoup d'articles à propos de pourcentages de lecteurs numériques [...] mais rarement du côté où je me pose, et qu'en fait on sait finalement peu comment ça se passe l'édition - numérique ou papier - vue de l'intérieur (parce qu'on ne pense pas que des gens font les livres - on les lit -, tout comme moi-même je ne connais pas le process de fabrication qui a conduit à toutes les choses que je possède, tout comme on ne pense pas que des personnes produisent ce que nous mangeons, [...], bref, je pense qu'on a la chance d'ouvrir les entrailles de nos métiers afin que ceux qui sont au bout de la chaîne sachent ce qu'il y a derrière."

"A few days ago, a proposal was put forward in the HTML Working Group (HTML WG) by Microsoft, Netflix, and Google to take DRM in HTML5 to the next stage of standardization at W3C. This triggered another uproar about the morality and ethics behind DRM and building it into the Web. There are good arguments about morality/ethics on both sides of the debate but ultimately, the HTML WG will decide whether or not to pursue the specification based on technical merit."

"It's beach time, and you've probably already scanned a hundred lists of summer reads. Sadly overlooked is that other crucial literary category: the summer non-read, the book that you pick up, all full of ambition, at the beginning of June and put away, the bookmark now and forever halfway through chapter 1, on Labor Day. The classic of this genre is Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time," widely called "the most unread book of all time." How can we find today's greatest non-reads? Amazon's "Popular Highlights" feature provides one quick and dirty measure. Every book's Kindle page lists the five passages most highlighted by readers. If every reader is getting to the end, those highlights could be scattered throughout the length of the book. If nobody has made it past the introduction, the popular highlights will be clustered at the beginning."

"An indie author today released the 250,000th book on Smashwords. In the last 30 days, over 9,000 books were released at Smashwords. In 2008, we released 140 books in the first year. The 250,000 books comprise 8.5 billion words. Imagine the millions of hours of love that went into these books. Imagine the cultural treasures that are now available and discoverable to future generations."

"Dès 2011, Amazon mettait sur pied sa maison d'édition, avec l'espoir de n'être plus seulement considéré comme un vendeur de livres sur Internet. Depuis, les activités se sont élargies, notamment avec la création de Day One, lettre hebdomadaire sur la poésie et les nouvelles d'auteurs émergents. Aujourd'hui, le e-commerçant annonce la création de StoryFront, collection dédiée aux nouvelles."

"We did a massive pivot after two years and created a simple app that will help you read more consistently."

"I recently spoke at the New England Library Association's ITS Spring Event in Portsmouth, NH. Fun day, cool people! I spoke about library website UX, and provided some tips on making library websites easier to use. They made a video of my talk - here it is!"

"When Kindle Unlimited launched in the US 4 months ago there were many questioning whether it was good or bad for authors, and if the chorus of complaints over the past few days are any indication then the answer will be no. HM Ward kicked off the discussion on Friday when she revealed that she was pulling out of KDP Select, the program Amazon uses to funnel indie ebooks into Kindle Unlimited. Ward withdrew her books not because the average payment had dropped to only $1.33, but because her total revenues had fallen by 75%."

"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."

"Authors are upset with Amazon. Again. For much of the last year, mainstream novelists were furious that Amazon was discouraging the sale of some titles in its confrontation with the publisher Hachette over e-books. Now self-published writers, who owe much of their audience to the retailer's publishing platform, are unhappy. One problem is too much competition. But a new complaint is about Kindle Unlimited, a new Amazon subscription service that offers access to 700,000 books - both self-published and traditionally published - for $9.99 a month. It may bring in readers, but the writers say they earn less. And in interviews and online forums, they have voiced their complaints. "Six months ago people were quitting their day job, convinced they could make a career out of writing," said Bob Mayer, an e-book consultant and publisher who has written 50 books. "Now people are having to go back to that job or are scraping to get by. That's how quickly things have changed.""

"The Salon du Livre - Paris Book Fair is a leading book fair that welcomes visitors around the world and allows them to delve into the world of books. The book fair has gained international recognition and showcases the culture and heritage of the region. Paris Book Fair Booth On Monday March 23rd, an all-day series of panel talks took place at the Paris Book Fair. The purpose of the panel was to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by accessible publishing in France. The event was organized by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. They actively support open, interoperable standards."

"On Monday March 23rd, an all-day series of panel talks [1] took place at the Paris Book Fair, to discuss the challenges and opportunities presented by accessible publishing in France. This covered a wide range of topics such as: regulatory issues (copyright exceptions), business models, production practices and end-user perspectives. The event was organised by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, who actively engage in support of open, interoperable standards. I'm Daniel Weck - I work with the DAISY Consortium and I act as the lead developer in the Readium SDK project. I spoke [2] about converging technologies and the synergy between mainstream and specialised publishing sectors. Other notable speakers included Hadrien Gardeur (Feedbooks, Readium Foundation board member), Luc Audrain (Hachette, IDPF member), Virginie Clayssen (Editis, National Syndicate of Publishers), and Fernando Pinto Da Silva (Association Valentin Hauy, President of the French DAISY Consortium)."