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How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write

Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

Edit this eBook!This eBook will explore everything from the commonalities between popular education and Open Source software; how raves and hip hop effect how we collect and visualize data; and how the participatory, open nature of new media technology have infected our world’s politics.

Je ne veux pas dire que la réussite du livre électronique passe par la promotion de la piraterie. Mais sans elle, il manquera toujours le coup de fouet sans lequel les éditeurs ne se lèveront pas de leurs fauteuils en cuir pour passer à l’action.

Quand aux problèmes, c’est le coût du livre qui arrive en tête : “Ainsi 80% des personnes interrogées jugent le prix insatisfaisant. Elles pensent, pour 75% d’entre elles, que le prix devrait être en moyenne 40% moins cher qu’un livre (contre environ 10% aujourd’hui).”

The closer you look at the statistics, the more depressing it gets. In the US, only 47% of adults read a work of literature - and I don’t mean Shakespeare, I mean any novel, short story, play or poem - in 2006. If that doesn’t sound too bad, consider that it’s declined by 7% in only ten years.

The development of a USB driver brings Android operating system to the E Ink development kit. Now a new world of creative developers can extend the functionality of and write applications for this low-power screen technology.

When I joined Collabora last year I started to work on porting WebKit GTK to a device produced by iRex technologies based on the GNOME mobile stack and with an electonic paper display. My task was to make WebKit usable for the browser that they want to ship with the next version (with Wi-Fi connectivity) of their device, this meant adding missing features, fixing various bugs and adapting WebKit to work well with this kind of devices.

an important truth that persists to this day: people don't get e-books.