ENTRIES TAGGED "book related"
Select O'Reilly Books Soon on Kindle, and as Digital Ebook Bundles
Update: On his New York Times blog, David Pogue has noted O'Reilly's pilot in the context of the recent discussion prompted his column on ebooks and piracy (which brought insightful responses from Adam Engst and Mike Masnick, along with a follow up from David). Ebooks are certainly nothing new for us at O'Reilly. We've offered PDFs of hundreds of our…
A Year in O'Reilly Books (2007)
I was looking the other day at our internal sales reports, and thought I'd offer a few random reflections based on our changing mix of bestsellers. This is anecdotal data, and for O'Reilly books only, not to be confused with my State of the Computer Book Market posts. (Mike Hendrickson and I are working on one of those as…
OLPC and the Kindle
When I saw the OLPC I just had to tinker around with it. So on an hour train ride home I explored the little OLPC and was quite impressed.
A Passion for Reading
Several items about books: Stephen Levy writes in his Newsweek cover story on the Kindle and Jeff Bezos: "When making mental lists of the most whiz-bangy technological creations in our lives, […] we may overlook an object that is superbly designed, wickedly functional, infinitely useful and beloved more passionately than any gadget in a Best Buy: the book." Elizabeth Hardwick,…
Beautiful Libraries of the World
Bibliophilia is an occupational hazard in the publishing industry. I've got it, and I know Tim does. We both loved this set of photos of beautiful libraries around the world. To be allowed a day in each library would make a fantastic holiday itinerary. The non-book-lovers among you are saying "my god, a whole day?! In a dusty old library?!…