Tag Archives: digital publishing

Electronic Paper to the Rescue!

Bob Nefkens | 17 October 2010, 10:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,


Digital publishing is trying to replace centuries of ink printed publishing, however many people are still skeptical to this idea of digital publishing, and remain loyal to the ‘old’ book, mostly because they don’t like reading off a computer screen. Could electronic paper be the saviour?

Non-commercial licensing on Creative Commons

Ashiq Khondker | 16 October 2010, 10:06 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , ,
What would life be without Bach? Far from any discussion of the aura, the only reason I have ever heard Bach is that his compositions have been relentlessly copied, passed down the generations, re-interpreted, re-adapted for new instruments (piano, electric guitar, moog), and let to remain free in the public/sonic

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From book to booooooooooooooooooooook

Alberto Angelini | 13 October 2010, 11:09 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

In a recent work about the future of printed literature, italian intellectual Umberto Eco describes the book as an eternal technology, something similar to a spoon or a bycicle: while time goes by and innovations pop up ceaselessly, some specifically well-designed objects tend to remain pretty stable. Moreover, he argues, the book-shape is determined by our own anatomy…