Comments on: Penguin e-book experiment continues http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/06/penguin-e-book-experiment-continues/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:38:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Richard Herley http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/06/penguin-e-book-experiment-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-923767 Richard Herley Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:27:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12310#comment-923767 @Charlie I agree: this is an exciting as well as an interesting development. Such enriched content would not be commercially possible with a p-book. It's a bit like those movie DVDs where you get bonus material like commentaries from the director and producer, "the making of", etc. And of course, there's no reason not to include hyperlinks in an e-book: future displays are sure to be wirelessly connectable, and could allow links to be made invisible or not, as the user prefers. @Charlie

I agree: this is an exciting as well as an interesting development. Such enriched content would not be commercially possible with a p-book. It’s a bit like those movie DVDs where you get bonus material like commentaries from the director and producer, “the making of”, etc. And of course, there’s no reason not to include hyperlinks in an e-book: future displays are sure to be wirelessly connectable, and could allow links to be made invisible or not, as the user prefers.

]]> By: Pawel http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/06/penguin-e-book-experiment-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-923690 Pawel Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:00:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12310#comment-923690 It is available on Mobipocket website: http://www.mobipocket.com/EN/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=118035 It is available on Mobipocket website:
http://www.mobipocket.com/EN/eBooks/eBookDetails.asp?BookID=118035

]]> By: Charlie http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/06/penguin-e-book-experiment-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-923404 Charlie Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:43:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12310#comment-923404 This is an interesting development. Publishers starting to realise that they need to add value to free texts if they are going to sell them at a premium. I hope this really sets the ball rolling. This is an interesting development. Publishers starting to realise that they need to add value to free texts if they are going to sell them at a premium. I hope this really sets the ball rolling.

]]> By: Garson O'Toole http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/06/penguin-e-book-experiment-continues/comment-page-1/#comment-923182 Garson O'Toole Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:19:20 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=12310#comment-923182 Penguin mentions the inclusion of “Contemporary Reviews of Heart of Darkness”. This is a fine idea. I have always thought that supplementing Project Gutenberg texts with book reviews from the period of original publication would enrich the presentation and support informed selection. If a book is public domain then contemporaneous reviews should usually be in the public domain also. Do any blog readers know if there is a text scanning project that includes a corpus of book reviews? Does the “Distributed Proofreaders” volunteer organization, current supplier of most Project Gutenberg texts, scan many book reviews? The handsome Feedbooks website has appurtenances such as book cover scans and Amazon links on the individual web pages dedicated to texts. It would benefit I think from links to contemporaneous reviews if they were available. Of course all kinds of material falls into the maw of the Google scanning project. But they are not proofreading, and I do not think they have identified or linked book reviews to books – yet. Penguin mentions the inclusion of “Contemporary Reviews of Heart of Darkness”. This is a fine idea. I have always thought that supplementing Project Gutenberg texts with book reviews from the period of original publication would enrich the presentation and support informed selection. If a book is public domain then contemporaneous reviews should usually be in the public domain also.

Do any blog readers know if there is a text scanning project that includes a corpus of book reviews? Does the “Distributed Proofreaders” volunteer organization, current supplier of most Project Gutenberg texts, scan many book reviews? The handsome Feedbooks website has appurtenances such as book cover scans and Amazon links on the individual web pages dedicated to texts. It would benefit I think from links to contemporaneous reviews if they were available.

Of course all kinds of material falls into the maw of the Google scanning project. But they are not proofreading, and I do not think they have identified or linked book reviews to books – yet.

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