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Paid Google Books Coming This Summer to a Browser Near You
Posted by Matt in News and Commentary on May 4th, 2010
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google will be releasing “Google Editions” this summer. This service will compete directly with Amazon Kindle, iBook and B&N’s bookstores. While not entirely surprising, it is great to see a company that knows how to manage and organize content getting into the book business. Hopefully this service will be an “everybody gets to play” type of service where authors will be able to directly market to consumers taking out the middle man of the publishers. What could be even more compelling is if Google editions is combined and tightly integrated with ChromeOS tablets and Android devices. You can get more details in the video below.
Wikipedia now offering printed books
Posted by Matt in News and Commentary on May 7th, 2010
Wikipedia has enabled a new feature that allows you to create print based books via the wikipedia website. The books are a collection of wikipedia articles that you choose. You can see all the details of how it works below.
Does this idea have any merit whatsoever? Or are traditional print texts on their way out in favor of ereaders? Only time will tell for sure but I wouldn’t count the traditional book down for the count yet. What is more fundamentally interesting about this idea though is the interface that allows the end user to create a new compilation of content from existing articles. I could see this same interface used very effectively to customize textbooks whether they are in print or ebook form. What are your thoughts? Is Wikipedia on to something?
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