I’m feeling philosophical this afternoon, and wanted to discourse on the amazing power of the written word.
The written word is one of the most powerful communication tools ever invented.
We can absorb written words faster than we can absorb spoken words. We can transmit words from place to place much more efficiently than the spoken […]
Writing ‘in the cloud’
The line between e-books and other Internet writing has been diminishing over time, with commercial e-self-publishing sites such as Smartbooks or Scribd, independent story hosts such as Shifti.org, and fanfic downloaders and converters that turn stories posted on fan-fiction hosts into formatted e-books.
One of today’s big buzz-words is “the cloud”, referring to the practice […]
McGraw-Hill CEO: Apple tablet iPhone OS-powered, will have 95% of McGraw-Hill e-textbooks available
Per MacRumors, the CEO of McGraw-Hill has let a few interesting factoids slip about the new Apple tablet, starting at about 2:50 in the video below the jump. Here is the transcript:
Yeah, Very exciting. Yes, they’ll make their announcement tomorrow (Wednesday) on this one. We have worked with Apple for quite a while. And the […]