Matt MacInnis envisions a day when university and grade school classrooms are completely free of paper textbooks.
His Silicon Valley-based company, Inkling, is working to bring that vision to fruition.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
The ebook conundrum
But even though the demand for ebooks is exploding, the supply isn't. The majority of major publishers in North America will not sell ebooks to libraries.
Monday, January 23, 2012
ALA announces 2012 Youth Media Award winners
The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the top books, video and audiobooks for children and young adults – including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery and Printz awards – at its Midwinter Meeting in Dallas.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Copyright and the Right
The opposition to SOPA is not limited to the right in the United States. In Canada, Blogging Tories, which aggregates dozens of right-leaning blogs, went dark in support of the SOPA protest and the National Post was the only major Canadian paper to publish an editorial on the issue, concluding:...
Congress withdraws anti-piracy measures
U.S. lawmakers stopped anti-piracy legislation in its tracks on Friday, delivering a stunning win for Internet companies that staged an unprecedented online protest this week to kill the previously fast-moving bills.
Apple elbows into textbook market
The world’s most valuable technology company announced Thursday a new version of its electronic book software, iBooks 2 for the iPad.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Humans have the need to read
The Guardian: 2011 December 30
It doesn't matter if books are delivered in print or by smartphone, the main thing is to get lost in reading them
It doesn't matter if books are delivered in print or by smartphone, the main thing is to get lost in reading them
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