Posts Tagged ‘books’

Amazing Books on the iPad

Here’s a great idea that shows the power of electronic devices over traditional books. They’re called Amazing Book and it’s children’s iPad app that is interactive, making sure that kids will remain engaged for the entire reading experience. Kids can read along, or the book can read itself to them,...

Are you in a tribe?

Seth Godin is working to promote his new book called Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us which is bound to be just as insightful as his previous books. Today I spotted a post on his blog where he’s inviting people who preorder the book to join an exclusive group...

Please don’t call it Book 2.0

Lots of movement in the news today about Amazon‘s new foray into an attempt to replace? the hard-back with an electronic gizmo. The device, named The Kindle, has been announced by Jeff Bezos and is said to be the future of reading. It can be used to read books, newspapers,...

Building Responsive Web Application with AJAX and PHP

Cristian Darie, a good mate of mine is in the process of release a new book: Building Responsive Web Applications with AJAX and PHP: Online Edition. It will be available soon and I’m sure it will prove to be an excellent read! Some of the AJAX demos are already available,...

Download and read: God’s Debris

Scott Adams has just put up an electronic version of one of his books: God’s Debris. Here’s why he put it up: It’s free because it’s designed to be discussed with people who have also read it. I’m confident that some percentage of the free e-book readers will be inspired...

ISBN .. where did it come from?

Yeah .. we all know it’s a standard numbering system for books, giving each book a unique machine readable ID (and people who did computer science probably know that the final digit is a mod 11 checksum digit), but did you know it’s only 35 years old and was originally...

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