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2 free Webinars: Usability at MIT +ebook accessibility
Kes: Love this MIT model which has usability and accessibility as part of the same service instead of creating an accessibility ghetto, but that's the good news, because the ebook accessibility Webinar seems to fail to mention that the only way to convert most proprietary format ebooks is to first crack the DRM, and that would count as a big ( Read more... ) -
EASI offers online course about creating accessible ebook formats
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New Nook ebook reader offers Read and Record function
Technology Review's summing up of reviews for the Nook ebook reader ( Read more... ) -
Kindle Cloud Reader app for browsers
Kes: description from the blurg but is the required version of Firefox accessible? Last time I did a FF update I had to downgrade back to the previous version ( Read more... ) -
Technology Review article: "A New Chapter for E-Books
Kes: Brief article which focuses on two specific ebook projects, one J.K. Rowling's Pottermore and the other a biology textbook which will offer lifetime access.
Lavish electronic-book projects point toward the pinnacle of the medium.
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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2011
BY ERICA NAONE media studies, ebooksBritish Library to release rare 1titles as free ebooks
These are scanned images of the originals, and titles include an Alice in Wonderland book and a Leonardo da Vinci notebookhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8777840/British-Library-releases-rare-titles-as-ebooks.My thoughts on Kindle for PC with accessibility plug-in
When I tried installing this earlier this year when it first came out, I kept having an issue with Windows Journal Viewer that repeatedly interrupted the install process. Finally, last week I just uninstalled Windows Journal Viewer and the install completed ( Read more... )Weightless Books now offers Aqueduct Press ebooks
Weightless Books, which offers a wide variety of SFF, slipstream, spec fic, insert your favorite name for it here, just added a bunch of ( Read more... )Cemetery Dance now offers ebooks
Read about it at ( Read more... )Readercon report: ebooks panel +ebooksin the Book Room!
Panel: Book Design and Typography in the Digital Era ( Read more... )