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Grrr... Not possible to download free music from Amazon.com and .fr due to "Geographical restrictions"....
Today, for the eReader Reference Architecture I modeled 3 options for reading from the web:
  1. If your reader has a browser and an Internet connection you can browse the web directly, as advertised for the iPad
  2. You could also browse the web, find something interesting and flag it as "Read Later", as Instapaper does. Later you can create and download a document (PDF, ePub, HTML...) gathering all your "read later" pages. Today I modeled that the aggregated document is uploaded to your eReader via a Inbox Service (Service to Push documents to a eReader).
  3. An alternative to "Read Later" is the subscription to RSS feeds. I modeled that an RSS Agregator on the Desktop Tier creates a document (an ePub for instance) and uploads the aggregated document to your eReader, also via the Inbox Service.
Option 2 and 3 have the advantage that you can read the web off-line.




Neofonie helps you to make magazines for the WePad/iPad/notebooks/desktops... bit.ly
In a recent blog post, I told about Woodwing which proposes a solution for making magazines on the iPad.


Here is an other one : the WeMagazine ePublishing Open Platform. 

Here is the google Translation of the product page (Originally in German):

"For publishers who want their print titles to offer digital, neofonie offers WeMagazine ePublishing Open Platform. The WeMagazine is a software system that is an intelligent, interactive and socially networked book in digital form on tablets such as the WePad or the iPad, desktops, notebooks, and the Web brings. The publishers can extend through the user output format and intuitive operation, the reading time compared to the web material and retain full control over the content.

The publishers can compensate for the loss of one page the reader in print through an innovative form of reading on new digital channels. On the other side by a very high quality and innovative presentation of print and online content, the Open Platform WeMagazine can counteract the trend especially in the growing Web-free mentality. This increase and the high recognition factor with a uniform user interface on all channels, customer loyalty especially in comparison to traditional, complex from a user perspective, Web services."

Tatoo of a liverpool football player: everybody dies but not everyone lives.
How to feel like an happy Belgian tonight ?
46 KM de Mountain Bike ce matin. Météo idéale. Sol sec. Super ! :-)
Ils sont pas gênés ces Islandais. Est-ce qu'on leur envoie des nuages nous ?
Today I'm working on the design of an eBook Store application. eBook Authoring/Publishing/eCommerce scenario.
I want a WePad ! bit.ly
I should install the new beta firmware on my iRex next week. bit.ly
Woodwing vous aide à créer votre Magazine Digital pour l'iPad. bit.ly
email done, now back my eRRA. (eReader Reference Architecture).
I'll attend the woodwing "digital magazines on the iPad" webinar this afternoon. bit.ly
Si Apple écoule cette année 7 millions d'iPad, ca serait deux fois plus que de Kindle - cfr Data News : bit.ly
Suprising : no Apps for the Kin (Microsoft Phone) : bit.ly
Aujourd'hui, j'ai participé au webinar de Woodwing
sur création de magazines pour l'iPad.

Le software de woodwing est notament utilisée pour la
version iPad du Time Magazine.


Pour ce faire, Woodwing propose un serveur (Entreprise 7),
un logiciel (Content Station) et un Plugin pour Adobe InDesign.

En utilisant ces 3 éléments on peut facilement créer
des magazines qui supportent les mises en page portrait/landscape
puis les publier comme une application sur l'AppStore de Apple.

Woodwing permet également d'insérer des
slideshows, des vidéos, des liens (Table des matières...),
des éléments web (HTML). Un index est également créé
pour la recherche dans le magazine.

La solution sera disponible mi-mai. Une version
Software as a Service pour le Content Server sera possible.

Particulièrement intéressant, le software de Woodwing
pourra également publier le magazine sur un autre
viewer que celui de l'iPad (utilisant Flex et/ou HTML5).
Comme exemple d'autre liseuse, Victor Cardoso a cité le HP Slate.


A la fin du roman de Ray Douglas Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, le héros « parvient à s'échapper de la ville et se laisse porter le long du fleuve pour rencontrer les membres d'une communauté itinérante, composée de vieux diplômés de Harvard, qui habite sur les routes, le long de vieux chemins de fer rouillant. Ils ont chacun appris un livre par cœur afin de le sauver de l'oubli auquel il était promis. Finalement, la guerre éclate et voit la ville détruite, donnant une chance à un nouveau départ. »

Source : Blog PLE Consulting : Lorenzo Socclavo : Marché du Livre : les 4 Cercles de l’Enfer ?
Had to disable the facebook chat in Pidgin because caused crashes. Strange behaviour in Tweetdeck too...
Amazon does it right with free reading apps for iPad, PC, iPhone, Mac and Blackberry. bit.ly
One of the problems with choosing an eReader for eBooks is that if you change it for another type, you might loose the eBooks.

Google has a solution : keep the book on the web and access it on-line with some synchronization services for reading off-line.

Amazon comes with another solution : write eReading software that works on most of the devices. See here :

Read Anywhere with Amazon's free reading apps.

I find it cool and I will certainly give it a try.
Archimate for eReader Reference Architecture Link : bit.ly I use BOUML for the modeling.

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