Don’t loan J.K. Rowling any first editions! The author of Harry Potter doesn’t just love ebooks now, she hates printed books. Why, look at the lengths she’ll go to deface one in her new video announcing her HP ebook venture: The hand-cut, stop-motion paper animations are gorgeous. You definitely can’t slice up an E Ink [...]
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Here are some Kindle screens in the C.S. Lewis vein
Over the weekend, a reader named Greg posted a link on the Free Screens page to his own public collection of Kindle screens. He’s got over thirty images freely available to download. Although the collection includes portraits and illustrations, its specific appeal is to people interested in C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, John Edwards, and other [...]
Songs as books? An illustrated version of Lady Gaga’s “Telephone”
Yesterday I wrote up a whole bunch of notes for what will most likely be another long post about some hypothetical near-future publishing idea. That’s not important (yet). What’s important is that in those notes I used Lady Gaga as an example of how musical artists could offer small written works as impulse-purchase content to [...]
Free screens: subway maps of major cities
Fellow Kindle owner Parker Higgins just sent me a note about some Kindle transit map screensavers he created, and after I slapped myself in the head for not coming up with the idea first, I quickly downloaded them for my own use. As you can see, they’re maps of some of the world’s most traveled [...]
Classic Scrooge illustrations for your Kindle
Is there any Christmas tale more famous, or more horrifying, than Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”? Poor Ebenezer! In the course of one long night, a productive and upstanding member of society is driven mad by the relentless torments of the spirit world; he ends his days (we can assume) penniless and bonkers. But that’s Victorian [...]
Halloween screensavers for your Kindle
Raargh! Blaaarrrh! Slurp! And then whatever sound a pumpkin monster makes–something squishy, I imagine. Here are several spoooky screensaver images for your enjoyment. In general, I tried to use darker shades to better suit the theme, but that means they may lack detail on older screens. They look pretty great on the Kindle 3 “Pearl” [...]
Brainstorming the future of ebooks
What will the future of digital publishing look like? Here are some ideas on how publishing may evolve in the coming years, as ebooks continue to grow in popularity.
Amazon caves to Authors Guild, allows publishers to disable "Read It Now"
Amazon gives in to the Authors Guild, and will let publishers and authors disable the read-it-now function on books.
Fairy tale screens: “Hansel & Gretel” and “Rapunzel”
Here are a couple of Kindle screens I made using Wordle’s free word cloud web-app. To be honest, I’m still undecided about whether the cartoons add too much clutter, but I thought these two were fun regardless considering the subject matter. You can make your own text-based screensavers at Wordle.net. Update:These screensaver images and others [...]
Screens: Jane Austen
Thomas K. wrote, “Is there any chance you just might find a picture good enough for our kindle of Jane Austen?”
Free Kindle Screensaver: Toro Yama Mantis Tapestry
Update:This image and others are now collected on the Free Screens page of the site.
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