WebKit now supports the -epub- CSS property-prefix as an alias, similar to its support for the -apple- and -khtml- prefixes. This addition was made following a conference call in the EPUB Working Group last Thursday, and while [not](http://twitter.com/#!/hober/status/64014556854366208 “"@beverloo the disagreement is mostly around author conformance of unprefixed & prefixed content and not on what RSs need to support. Mostly.”") [all issues](http://groups.google.com/group/epub-working-group/msg/ca976a3264b03baa ““In the teleconf, I opposed to the original proposal from Apple,which uses both unprefixed properties and fixed properties.
Магазин одной книги.
via afisha.ru
Смешная история. Но одноразовая. И серии “гениальные маркетинговые находки”.
via itunes.apple.com
Для своего книжного клуба Safari Books. Версия для iPad.
From the beginning of Digital Change Thinking Time, which for me goes back to the mid-1990s, “subscription” has been high on the list of future expectations. That’s natural. The subscription model has emerged as the dominant one for cable TV (although there is still some pay-per-use) and Netflix works that way as well. Lots of people subscribe to satellite radio. Rhapsody is a successful subscription service for music. Pandora for music has a free model and a paid model, as does Spotify.
«Ну и наконец, нельзя не сказать о «постоянно действующем» факторе – падении интереса населения к чтению, – добавили в Роспечати. – По данным ВЦИОМ, доля россиян, не читающих книги, с 1996 г. по 2010 г. увеличилась на 17% – с 20% до 37%. Доля же россиян, активно читающих книги, составила в 2010 г. только 23%, и эта цифра продолжает снижаться».
Большую роль среди факторов, оказывающих влияние на интерес к чтению, а следовательно, и на динамику книжных продаж, играют другие медиа, которые ведут ожесточенную борьбу за свободное время человека.
Big 6 publisher Simon & Schuster’s first quarter earnings announcement included one significant number: Digital content generated 18% of total revenue in the period. Through 2010, e-books had topped out at about 10% of publishing’s revenues.
via latimesblogs.latimes.com
А в 2010 год 10% дохода Simon & Schuster пришлось на электронные книги.
Учитывая, что за квартал обороты составили $155 млн, на электронные книги пришлось $26,35 млн. Нехило.
E Ink’s Sri Peruvemba says that there’s generally a two-year cycle in E Ink technology as it takes some time to develop and test new generation displays. Sri says that we shouldn’t expect a new monochrome E Ink display (to replace the Pearl) in 2011. I guess we’ll have to wait till 2012!
What we are likely to see soon are speed improvements - full-motion video (24fps) using updated drivers and faster processors.
Music subscription services had 1.5 million paying users in the US last year, up from 1.2 million in 2009.
via musically.com
Загадочная, поскольку всего в 1,2 млн пользователей подписных музыкальных сервисов в США верится с трудом. Примечательная, поскольку пи общем падении продаж на 10% доходы от цифровых продаж выросли на 10% и составили 47% (53% — материальная шняга). Ещё забавно, что на 44% выросли продажи LP! Народ ностальгирует по полной программе.
Doklad_kniznii_rinok2011 by Vladimir Haritonov on Scribd
И ничего нового про эл.книги ;( Думал, хоть инсайд у них какой есть. Никакого.
“An estimated 764,448 titles written by entrepreneurs and other nontraditional authors were published in the U.S. in 2009, including reprints. That’s more than double 2008’s figure and six times as many as in 2007.”
Extrapolating the trend by far in excess of 1 million people in the United States will have written a book in the past twelve months. In other words there is an aching desire on the part of a significant and growing part of the population of educated societies to communicate something unique to them.