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The Clean Theme For iBooks – How To Tone Down The Paper Metaphor

I’ve been using the iBooks app quite a bit on my iPad, and I’ve long hoped for an update which will wipe out that annoying faux-book border around the pages. So I investigated it, and was thrilled to...

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My New Dumb Kindle

Amazon just announced it would finally begin accepting epubs from publishers, and might, someday soon, make reading them a feature of the Kindle. I just got a Kindle for the first time, because I sort...

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Refreshing Dissent

[Originally posted as  a response on the Read 2.0 discussion list] It’s fair to say that ebooks are here to stay, but it’s also pretty obvious there’s a lot of hot air floating around. A provocative...

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Announcing ReadSocial

We’ve been doing the ebook thing for five years now. A veritable flash-in-the-pan for the publishing world. But like dog years, web years fly by at an accelerated rate. Five years is a lifetime in...

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BookGlutton Open-Sources Core Epub Library (PHP)

Good news! Aaron Miller, BookGlutton’s CTO (@vaporbook), has open-sourced the BookGlutton Core Epub Library. This is something that people can use in web-based reading systems, and we hope other...

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Open-Source Stampede – BookGlutton’s PHP ONIX Importer Released

Stay tuned, this is about as publishing-geeky as we can get. You might have noticed we’ve been gradually open-sourcing parts of the BookGlutton platform as time permits. We want to share some of the...

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The Meaning of Social Reading and Where It’s Headed

Aaron and I are working on an article, and we’ve been digging through our other writing for inspiration. I wrote this for Digital Book World in Fall of 2010. -Travis Books are social. It’s rare to...

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Tell Us What You Think

Feedback Tab - Open We’ve added a feedback tab to the BookGlutton site – it’s something we’ve been meaning to do for some time, so it feels good to get it out there. The Feedback tab just hangs out...

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Read Our New Chapter in Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto (O’Reilly)

We (Aaron Miller and Travis Alber) just contributed a chapter to Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto – Collections from the Bleeding Edge of Publishing. The digital book is being released by O’Reilly in three...

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Sunset on BookGlutton

Some startups are driven by money or market control, but BookGlutton was created out of a passion to help people appreciate what they read. Its mission has always been to make reading books more like...

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