On FutureBook, Richard Stephenson has a brief piece looking at the interactivity now possible in iBooks. Since iBooks 1.5 supports Javascript, this means that e-books can take upon themselves abilities formerly associated with stand-alone appbooks. Stephenson uses the example of the Beatles Yellow Submarine iBook, available for free from the iBookstore, which uses embedded Javascript to add interactivity. He suggests that this interactivity could be a great way for publishers to add additional revenue streams, such as the ability to purchase music from within the Yellow Submarine book. While I will admit that it’s good to see...

Citizen428 has a listing of over 30 free, and legally available, programming ebooks. The languages include: Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, Javascript, Haskell, Erlang, Python, Smalltalk, and others. Here's a selection of the Javascript list: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Eloquent Javascript jQuery Fundamentals...

The Kindle Web-browser expanded to 52 more countries?It looks as if Jay Marine, director of product management for Kindle, was serious when he was reported to have said that Amazon does intend to enable its experimental browser in every countryAmazon I had wondered when I read posts from Kindle-owners in other countries that their Kindles were suddenly enabled to use the Experimental Web browser, if that was because in setting up the new software update, they may have inadvertently enabled the web browser for other countries other than the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico? This happened with Canada the first few...

The buzz on the latest version of Apple's Safari browser has been hitting the web in the last 24 hours, so you're probably well aware of the some of the new features included in this latest release. One of the best I've found so far is Safari Reader. This one little part is a game changer for reading online html pages. Here's why... For most of us, reading online stories through a web page is an experience in pain. Pain of advertisements, pain of stories spread across multiple pages, pain of trying to figure out where the...

Monocle is a javascript ebook reader. According to their site: Monocle is drop-in. You can embed a 'book' on any webpage with two lines of code — one to include the library, one to initialize the reader. Monocle is approximately 25kb and has no dependencies on external JavaScript libraries. Monocle is as you like it. Out of the box it simply lets you turn the pages. It's lean. But you can add controls — page numbers, tables of contents, scrubbers (to jump to a different place in the book), font-size magnifiers — or you can code your own. The reader is...