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BlogsTags > booksReally Understanding ComputationBy Mike LoukidesJune 14, 2013 It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming with Nothing, which he presented at Ruby Manor in … Really Understanding ComputationBy Mike LoukidesJune 4, 2013 It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming with Nothing, which he presented at Ruby Manor in … Four short links: 29 May 2013By Nat TorkingtonMay 29, 2013 Quick Reads of Notable New Zealanders — notable for two reasons: (a) CC-NC-BY licensed, and (b) gorgeous gorgeous web design. Not what one normally associates with Government web sites! svg.js — Javascript library for making and munging SVG images. (via … Why ebooks & why green e-publishing?By Deborah EminMay 2, 2013 Perhaps you’ve also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn’t read it. If it did, publishing could become the standard bearer for global reduction of carbon footprints. This business challenge … Four short links: 17 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 17, 2013 Computer Software Archive (Jason Scott) — The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world. Find me someone bigger. Through these terabytes (!) of software, the whole of the software landscape of the last 50 … Three years of TOC at the Bologna Children’s Book FairBy Sarah TowleApril 11, 2013 O’Reilly Media took its Tools of Change in Publishing Conference to Italy for the first time in 2011, teaming up with the Bologna Children’s Book Fair organizers to focus on opportunities for children’s content in digital publishing. That year the … Digital publishing and the loss of intimacyBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 9, 2013 Reading used to be an intimate experience. Even Amazon, the pioneer in digital publishing, branded its Kindle with a child reading alone under a tree. Books were specially designed to disappear into the background as much as possible, helped by … The future of educational publishingBy Joe WikertApril 9, 2013 The ebook revolution started with the launch of the original Kindle back in late 2007. More than 5 years later the world is now moving away from dedicated e-readers to multifunction tablets. Despite the dramatic rise in ebook sales most … Libraries to become community publishing portalsBy Mark CokerApril 1, 2013 [Ed. note: The following first appeared on The Huffington Post. It has been reposted here with the author's permission.] Public libraries provide an essential community service by promoting literacy and a culture of reading. With the rise of ebooks, public … Four short links: 21 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 21, 2013 The Obfuscation of Culture — Tumblr and LJ users sep ar ate w ords thr ou gh o dd spacin g in o rde r to fo ol sea rc h en g i nes. Chinese users hide political messages … Building an ebook business around analyticsBy Hugh McGuireMarch 20, 2013 AskMen, “the leading online magazine for men,” has just launched an ebook publishing program, using the PressBooks Publisher Platform to manage the front-end catalog/website, and back-end ebook production. In the year-and-a-bit since PressBooks launched publicly, we’ve worked with many traditional … The book as a standard of qualityBy François Joseph de KermadecMarch 13, 2013 Publishers have long commandeered respect for the quality of their work. Traditional processes may be cumbersome, reliant as they are on an infinity of minute, specialised steps, but they have helped maintain consistently high standards, at ever-lower prices. Authors may … Used ebooks: Why your assumptions are wrong and the opportunity is hugeBy Joe WikertMarch 11, 2013 Amazon has a patent and now Apple does too. I’m talking about the techniques both companies might use to let you resell your digital content. They join ReDigi, who already offers a platform to resell your digital music. Ebooks are next, of course, … Four short links: 8 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 8, 2013 mlcomp — a free website for objectively comparing machine learning programs across various datasets for multiple problem domains. Printing Code: Programming and the Visual Arts (Vimeo) — Rune Madsen’s talk from Heroku’s Waza. (via Andrew Odewahn) What Data Brokers Know … PlayTales one year laterBy Kate ShoafMarch 5, 2013 In March 2012, Joe Wikert posted an interview with a new bookstore app startup called PlayTales. Since then the app market has continued to grow, and PlayTales along with it. My name is Kate Shoaf, PlayTales’ PR and communications manager, and I’d … How can we redefine the book?By François Joseph de KermadecMarch 4, 2013 A book may no longer be a physical object, but its ordinary definition remains straightforward as a “written composition that is intended for publication”. Traditional or digital, we feel confident in our ability to recognise a book. We barely remember … The People’s EBookBy Kat MeyerMarch 1, 2013 “What the photocopier was to zines, we hope the People’s E-Book will be to digital books.” – Greg Albers Working for TOC, I meet and talk to people from all over the world who are doing incredible things to transform … Four short links: 1 March 2013By Nat TorkingtonMarch 1, 2013 Drone Journalism — two universities in the US have already incorporated drone use in their journalism programs. The Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska and the Missouri Drone Journalism Program at the University of Missouri both teach journalism … The publishing industry has a problem, and EPUB is not the solutionBy Jani PatokallioFebruary 26, 2013 This article contains my personal views, not those of my employer Lonely Planet. I’ll be blunt. Ebooks and EPUB are to the publishing industry what Blu-Ray is to the movie industry: a solution to yesterday’s problem made irrelevant by broader … Losing the book as a symbolBy François Joseph de KermadecFebruary 20, 2013 Transitioning the publishing industry to digital technologies involves lifting the words out of printed pages, and pouring them into the amorphous containers we call ebooks. Books are no longer the tangible, brick-shaped presence they were: they must, instead, be stretched … …and along with EPUB 3: New CSS!By Nellie McKessonFebruary 11, 2013 Hopefully you all read Sanders Kleinfeld’s great writeup about O’Reilly’s move to EPUB 3, and the changes and challenges that brings. Along with updating our toolchain, we also revisited our EPUB design and took a stab at improving the user … Book Publishing UnboundBy Neil AyresFebruary 6, 2013 Brand Perfect’s new report looks at how traditional publishers are contending with the challenges being brought about by increasingly fragmentary digital publishing, and highlights some of the most successful commercial projects that are responding to them. On the state of … Ebooks and the future of researchBy François Joseph de KermadecFebruary 6, 2013 Knowledge cannot progress unless it is aware of its past: a knowledge-seeker must reference the works of previous generations. Literary scholars return to manuscripts, musicians to partitions, artists to museums… The continued availability of reference works underpins our entire research … The four stages of the “Spotify for eBooks” adoption modelBy Justo HidalgoFebruary 5, 2013 During the 2013 edition of the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City, I will be participating in a panel that has been called ‘The Elusive Netflix of eBooks‘. The title implies the notion that a subscription service … Four short links: 5 February 2013By Nat TorkingtonFebruary 5, 2013 toolbar — tooltips in jQuery, cf hint.css which is tooltips in CSS. Security Engineering — 2ed now available online for free. (via /r/netsec) Economics of Netflix’s $100M New Show (The Atlantic) — Up until now, Netflix’s strategy has involved paying … Borne Digital: TOC Startup Showcase FinalistBy Kat MeyerFebruary 4, 2013 We’re giving our readers a chance to get to know our TOC Startup Showcase Finalists a little bit better before the big showdown in NYC. We’re featuring the startups with a personality profile here on our website. Our next profile … A Publisher’s Job Is to Provide a Good API for BooksBy Hugh McGuireFebruary 1, 2013 Intro Here is a radical statement: A publisher’s job is to provide good APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) for their books. Now that almost all books are made into digital products (that is, ebooks), good publishers of the future will be … PDF is still “better”By Nellie McKessonJanuary 30, 2013 A few weeks ago, I surprised myself. I had decided to learn a new code language, and O’Reilly of course has a great little book about this particular language, so I pulled up the eBook files, and almost without thinking, … Speakaboos: TOC Startup Showcase FinalistBy Kat MeyerJanuary 30, 2013 We’re giving our readers a chance to get to know our TOC Startup Showcase Finalists a little bit better before the big showdown in NYC. We’re featuring the startups with a personality profile here on our website. Our next profile … Four short links: 22 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 22, 2013 Design Like Nobody’s Patenting Anything (Wired) — profile of Maker favourites Sparkfun. Instead of relying on patents for protection, the team prefers to outrace other entrants in the field. “The open source model just forces us to innovate,” says Boudreaux. … Four short links: 17 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 17, 2013 Free Book Sifter — lists all the free books on Amazon, has RSS feeds and newsletters. (via BoingBoing) Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Realtime Analytics — a few key reasons why truly real-time analytics can open the … Publishing News: Amazon AutoRip — where’s the book version?By Jenn WebbJanuary 11, 2013 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Why book lovers can’t have nice things Amazon announced a new service this week called Amazon AutoRip. According to the press release, consumers who buy … Outthink Inc. believes learning should be funBy Andrea SheehanJanuary 3, 2013 Most of us who pursued careers in publishing did so because reading, in some way, impacted us as kids. But kids today live in a vastly changed world, and tablets have now taken over. One in four adults owns a … Four short links: 1 January 2013By Nat TorkingtonJanuary 1, 2013 Robots Will Take Our Jobs (Wired) — I agree with Kevin Kelly that (in my words) software and hardware are eating wetware, but disagree that This is not a race against the machines. If we race against them, we lose. … Publishing News: Penguin settles, Macmillan holds its groundBy Jenn WebbDecember 21, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. And then there were two In headline news this week, the Penguin Group announced it had reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice. … Publishing News: Tech industry history could inform bookstores’ road to recoveryBy Jenn WebbDecember 7, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Bookstore lessons and opportunities from the tech industry Brick-and-mortar bookstores arguably have taken the biggest hit thus far as the publishing industry struggles through its … Are we solving customer problems?By Gus BalbontinDecember 4, 2012 This article contains my personal views, not those of my employer Lonely Planet. The challenge the publishing industry faces today is complex. Against centuries of industry inertia and decades of business momentum, the job of transforming publishing is demanding to … Four short links: 26 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 26, 2012 High Levels of Burnout in US Drone Pilots (NPR) — 17 percent of active duty drone pilots surveyed are thought to be “clinically distressed.” The Air Force says this means the pilots’ stress level has crossed a threshold where it’s … Four short links: 22 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 22, 2012 Mark Your Territory — Urine integration for Foursquare. (via Beta Knowledge) TL;DR — news summaries. Finally. Zombie Ideas and Online Instruction — The repeated return of mistaken ideas captures well my experiences with technologies in schools and what I have … Fiction is a feminist issueBy bpatrickNovember 20, 2012 Yesterday we saw some friends and I gave the female half of the couple a bag stuffed with books. Her husband looked downcast and said “Don’t you have any books for me, Bethanne?” I explained to him that I did … Publishing News: Publishing’s worst-case fate, Amazon as US SteelBy Jenn WebbNovember 16, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Applying an historical perspective to the fate of the publishing industry NPR’s Adam Davidson looked this week at the Penguin-Random House merger from an industrial … Three questions for…Christian Damke of SkoobeBy Joe WikertNovember 16, 2012 This short interview with Christian Damke of Skoobe is a preview to the the Elusive ‘Netflix of Ebooks‘ session he’s part of at TOC NY 2013 in February. Use the discount code below to register for the event and learn … Four short links: 16 November 2012By Nat TorkingtonNovember 16, 2012 Under the Hood of Team Obama’s Tech Operation (Mother Jones) — The new platform allowed OFA to collect feedback from the ground on an enormous scale, and respond accordingly. In short, it made the flow of information bidirectional. “What it … Creating reader community with open APIsBy Leonhard DobuschNovember 15, 2012 I spoke at the “Frankfurt Digital Night” at this year’s Frankfurt Book fair, making essentially three points (see slides embedded below): first, publishing requires – and has always required – a commitment to creating and courting communities of readers. Second, there … Wiley & O’Reilly Media sign ebook distribution dealBy Joe WikertNovember 15, 2012 I’ve mentioned before that O’Reilly’s direct ebook channel is an extremely important sales outlet for us. We want our content to be in all stores but the direct channel is pretty much the only one where we can establish an … TOC’s Global Ebook Market reportBy Joe WikertNovember 8, 2012 One year ago that we published the first edition of our Global Ebook Market report. We focused on the major English language territories but also featured coverage of several other popular languages as well. A lot has changed in the … Publishing News: Two publications shift focus from print to digitalBy Jenn WebbOctober 19, 2012 Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my attention this week. Navigating the print to digital shift After 79 years of print production, U.S. weekly news magazine Newsweek will be shutting down its printing presses and … Four short links: 12 October 2012
By Nat TorkingtonOctober 12, 2012 Code Talks and Designers Don’t Speak the Language (Crystal Beasley) — Many of the bugs, however, require a deep understanding of why the product exists in the marketplace and a thorough understanding of the research that underpins the project. These … TOC Trifecta: This week’s must-reads (10/11/12)By Joe WikertOctober 11, 2012 Shakespeare for the rest of us — Thanks to the new Sourcebooks product I might even be able to understand Shakespeare now. Rethinking discovery – It’s not about bestsellers but it does require both curation and algorithms. Five stages of publishing … Startups and Publishers: It Ain’t EasyBy Hugh McGuireOctober 4, 2012 Any startup company trying to work with book publishers will tell you tales of woe and frustration. Big publishers and small publishers (I’ve worked with both) pose different sets of problems for startups, but the end result is a disconnect. … 1 to 50 of 452 Next Stay Connected
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