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Category Archives: Tech
Fell Types: Historical Meets Digital
In a world where legacy publishing is pitted against digital, it’s refreshing to see a small spot on the web symbolically embrace the old and the new. We’re happy to share with you Igino Marini’s fell type and revival font source. The Fell Types took their … Read More →
The Future of Desktop Computing?
The BendDesk is a way cool concept: a “computer” that’s one part iPad and the other a desk. Could it be the magic device needed to digitally publish large-format coffee table books? Should we all run out and get one? Nah, but we like it … Read More →
Mediabistro’s eBook Summit, Dec. 15th 2010
Right along with other publishing and book folk, we’ll be expanding our “digital publishing toolbox” at Mediabistro’s eBook Summit in New York City on December 15th. We’re mostly excited about the great roster of speakers (evaluate at your leisure here), and we hope to tweet insightful … Read More →
Leonardo Da Vinci on E-books
A not-so-far-in-the-past post on HuffPo Book’s caught our eye today. Steve Leveen, CEO and co-founder of Levenger Press, discusses Da Vinci with best-selling author of The Fantasia of Leonardo da Vinci: His riddles, jests, fables and bestiary, Ross King. At one point in their convo, … Read More →
The Future of the Book
IDEO envisions the future of the book as bright, interactive, layered—and very cool. We’re loving Alice. (via IDEO on Vimeo)
Sartre’s Le Mur in the Age of Facebook
If Satre were to publish Le Mur (The Wall) on his Facebook wall today. (via HTMLGIANT)
The Future of Social Reading
Whether or not “marginalia” is your thing, this article is worth a read. It highlights one of the basic and much-debated questions in e-literature: can/should we read socially? (via NYTimes)