How A Taste Of Kindle Reader For Blackberry Made Me Hunger For More (And More, And More)

by Maxwell Hoffmann, Desktop Publishing, Localization, Globalization and Sales Training Veteran
A few weeks ago I got a Tweet that sent me straight to downloads-ville. A “free” Kindle Reader app for my Blackberry! As a used-book store addicted Baby Boomer who color codes all of his hard copy books with highlighter pens, might I be [...]

The Making of a Mashup Compilation: Aurally Volume 1

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler, aka The Audio Wrangler
What do you get when you cross Pink Floyd with Christina Aquilera? How about a little Elvis with your Public Enemy? Or some Cher on top of This Mortal Coil? Although it may sound a little frightening, pairing musical groups and vocalists together in unorthodox ways [...]

[Interview] Joe Gollner: Defining Intelligent Content And Providing Some Real-World Examples

Interview with Joe Gollner by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler
The Content Wrangler: Joe, thanks for agreeing to chat with us today. Tell us a little about yourself and your experience in the content industry.
Joe Gollner: I began tinkering with content, using open markup technologies, in 1987 while still a grad student at University of Oxford. [...]

Valentine: The Digital, Device-Independent Comic Available Via Wireless In 14 Languages

By Alex de Campi
Imagine a graphic novel series, released every month simultaneously in 14 languages and across all major wireless platforms (Kindle, EPUB, Android, iPhone), hopefully soon via the web and, eventually, in collected print editions. Every month, you pay 99 cents and get 70-75 screens of action, adventure and suspense. In its first fortnight [...]

[Interview] Microsoft's Gabor Fari on Intelligent Content: Saving Lives By Helping New Drugs Get To Market Faster

Interview with Gabor Fari, Microsoft Life Sciences by Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler
The Content Wrangler: Hello, Gabor. Tell us a little about yourself and your experience in the content industry.
Gabor: I am a Chemical Engineer by training. I became fascinated with software a little over 10 years into my career, before I made the [...]

Marking Up The Fab Four: Just Imagine What XML Could Do For Your Books

By Alan J. Porter
[This post is the first in a planned series of articles that examine how the traditional book industry could benefit from adopting XML.]
Yesterday I posted on Twitter a couple of figures from the Association of American Publishers report of November 2009 book sales. The good news was that sales overall had in [...]

Reimagining the Book Publishing World With XML

By Dev Ganesan, President and CEO of Aptara
Today’s content consumers are voracious digital omnivores, desiring to feed on all types of electronic content — from Twitter tweets to YouTube videos, from iPhone apps to Facebook updates, from mp3s to eBooks. Yet traditional publishers, particularly trade book publishers, are not prepared to serve digitally savvy audiences [...]

SharePoint: 'Forcing It To Fit' Is An Expensive And Painful Experience

By Scott Smith, Invisible Fist
Each time I’ve sat down to write about Microsoft SharePoint, I’ve experienced a sensation that is the polar opposite of writer’s block. Indeed, there is much to say about SharePoint. The current ‘deluxe’ edition, (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server aka MOSS), is a big, feature-rich solution, developed by a gigantic company [...]

How The iPad Is Going To Change The Way We Do Things Everyday

The iPad in Action