Books In Browsers

Oct'2010 Live Event about EBook-s being readable in Web Browser-s vs dedicated devices/apps. See BrowserBasedEbookReader. Has become label for the general idea (see related Book Server).

• http://reading20.posterous.com/books-in-browsers-ia-evening-event-thu-oct-21

Brewster Kahle keynote

available <https://internetarchive.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/books-in-browsers-keynote-speech-by-brewster-kahle/

*This (Printed Book) ecology meant that:

• publishers can get into business easily
• booksellers appeared on many street corners
• libraries bought and then lent books to patrons
• authors, sometimes, got more than beer money
• readers can enjoy the great works of humankind*

(Then he notes that Books In Browsers gets much closer to this than Books-in-Devices and Books-in-Apps. This kinda an OpenWeb story.)

Google’s promised Google Editions are going to be available in browsers. Amazon is putting its toe in the books-in-browser world with its recent beta. StarBucks and LibreDigital’s recent announcement of best sellers readable in browsers when at a Starbucks. Ibis Reader, Book Glutton, Re Publish, S Book, and the Internet Archive are other emerging technologies for reading in browsers.

Other event coverage

http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/now-available-brewster-kahles-keynote-speech-at-books-in-browsers-and-many-other-materials/

• really like this deck (and summary) from Aaron Miller at Book Glutton.

2011-10-31-Books In Browsers 2011