TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » video http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Longest Word in the English Language Takes 3.5 Hours to Pronounce http://www.teleread.com/video/the-longest-word-in-the-english-language-takes-3-5-hours-to-pronounce/ http://www.teleread.com/video/the-longest-word-in-the-english-language-takes-3-5-hours-to-pronounce/#comments Fri, 10 May 2013 18:47:32 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=84750 Yes, this is a few months old, but nevertheless, a kindly tip o’ the hat goes out to GadgeTell editor Matthew Marchesano, who just alerted me to the bizarre YouTube video we’ve embedded for you below. The video features Dmitry Golubovskiy (the CEO of Esquire Russia, interestingly enough) reciting the chemical name of Titin. Apparently, it’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/video/the-longest-word-in-the-english-language-takes-3-5-hours-to-pronounce/feed/ 0 Wondering what to do with all those cell phone photos and digital videos? A new e-book has the answer. http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/from-fleeting-to-forever/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/from-fleeting-to-forever/#comments Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:56:29 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=83370 Mike McEnaney spent nearly 10 years working as both an editor and a publisher of B2B photography and digital photography magazines for North American Publishing Company (NAPCO), the same organization that owns and operates both TeleRead and the Technology Tell network of websites. Very recently, though, McEnaney struck out on his own. And somehow, along [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/from-fleeting-to-forever/feed/ 0 A Commercial Message from the First ‘Honest’ Cable Company (NSFW Video) http://www.teleread.com/video/a-commercial-message-from-the-first-honest-cable-company-video/ http://www.teleread.com/video/a-commercial-message-from-the-first-honest-cable-company-video/#comments Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:35:37 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=82273 It’s probably safe to say that we’ve all dealt with our fair share of ridiculousness, bestowed complimentary-style from our local Internet service providers. Hidden fees, promotions that are too good to be true, bad or weak Internet connections, frustrating customer service reps, forced up-selling, etc., etc., and the list goes on… A comedy troupe that makes short YouTube [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/morning-links-28/feed/ 0 Want a pair of Google Glass specs? Here’s how to get ‘em… http://www.teleread.com/google/want-a-pair-of-google-glass-specs-just-write-an-essay/ http://www.teleread.com/google/want-a-pair-of-google-glass-specs-just-write-an-essay/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:08:45 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=79390 So we’re all hip to Google’s latest consumer mega-project, Glass, right? The company that’s synonymous with ‘looking things up on the Web’ hasn’t released much information on its Glass project lately—not since they opened pre-orders to developers and media at their 2012 I/O event. A New York City resident who describes himself as a “wearable computing [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/google/want-a-pair-of-google-glass-specs-just-write-an-essay/feed/ 0 Amazon Kindle Fire HD One-Ups iPad Retina Screen in New Ad (Video) http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-one-ups-ipad/ http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-one-ups-ipad/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:26:48 +0000 Matthew Marchesano http://www.teleread.com/?p=78241 “You may not be able to tell the difference,” says the advertisement’s narrator, as both the iPad and the Kindle Fire HD sit side-by-side displaying the same images. “But your wallet definitely can.” Amazon’s new 30-second ad draws the comparison in screen resolution between the iPad and the (new, larger) Fire HD 8.9-inch screen. Visually, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/kindle/amazon-kindle-fire-hd-one-ups-ipad/feed/ 3 CNET video briefly compares tablets, Kindle as holiday gifts http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cnet-video-briefly-compares-tablets-kindle-as-holiday-gifts/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cnet-video-briefly-compares-tablets-kindle-as-holiday-gifts/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:37:50 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cnet-video-briefly-compares-tablets-kindle-as-holiday-gifts/ CNET has a 3-minute video that bills itself as a “Buyer’s Guide” for tablets and e-readers, though it primarily focuses on tablets, and mostly the more expensive tablets—the iPad, the Galaxy S, and Sony’s Android tablet (which I hadn’t heard of before). It paints this trio of $499 tablets as the main attraction for buyers [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/cnet-video-briefly-compares-tablets-kindle-as-holiday-gifts/feed/ 1 Khan Academy can hook students on learning http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/khan-academy-can-hook-students-on-learning/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/khan-academy-can-hook-students-on-learning/#comments Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:38:50 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/khan-academy-can-hook-students-on-learning/ This in-depth Wired feature article by Clive Thompson is a few months old, but I ran across it in an old print issue of Wired Magazine today at work and was completely fascinated. It does not have anything to do with e-books directly, perhaps, but is a great example of how new electronic media can [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/khan-academy-can-hook-students-on-learning/feed/ 1 New application lets you “read” movies on your Kindle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-application-lets-you-read-movies-on-your-kindle/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-application-lets-you-read-movies-on-your-kindle/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:30:25 +0000 Chris Walters http://www.teleread.com/?p=57701 Anyone familiar with the latest crop of EInk readers knows that there’s no good way to display animation or video in a satisfactory way. BBC developer Mark Longstaff-Tyrrell’s “iPlayer for Kindle” (named after the BBC’s streaming video player) doesn’t solve that problem, but it humorously sidesteps it by converting video into a series of captioned [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-application-lets-you-read-movies-on-your-kindle/feed/ 0 Star Trek digital download expiration: Why should media be like milk? http://www.teleread.com/drm/star-trek-digital-download-expiration-why-should-media-be-like-milk/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/star-trek-digital-download-expiration-why-should-media-be-like-milk/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/star-trek-digital-download-expiration-why-should-media-be-like-milk/ While this is not specifically about e-books, it is about an experience in transitioning from physical to digital media, and it should provide a lesson to all fields that are taking these steps—including books to e-books. A number of movies, especially titles from Paramount or Disney (such as Pixar’s Wall•E), have been coming with an [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/star-trek-digital-download-expiration-why-should-media-be-like-milk/feed/ 8 Libraries will survive, YouTube video proclaims http://www.teleread.com/library/libraries-will-survive-youtube-video-proclaims/ http://www.teleread.com/library/libraries-will-survive-youtube-video-proclaims/#comments Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:37:49 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/library/libraries-will-survive-youtube-video-proclaims/ It’s no surprise that libraries are coming under increasing budget pressures, both in the US and the UK. If e-book publishers can ever get their act together so that libraries can make them available to more readers, the zero-marginal-cost nature of e-books plus the savings in physical space might be helpful in reducing some of [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/libraries-will-survive-youtube-video-proclaims/feed/ 0 Om Malik: Old media need to see new picture http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/om-malik-old-media-need-to-see-new-picture/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/om-malik-old-media-need-to-see-new-picture/#comments Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:28:18 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/om-malik-old-media-need-to-see-new-picture/ On his GigaOm blog, Om Malik takes on the old media vs. new media dichotomy that has been showing up in so many places over the last few years. The main example he cites is the recent case of television broadcasters blocking Google TV from accessing their content (in much the same way Hulu’s TV [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/the-music-event-why-apple-is-streaming-it-and-how-to-watch-without-apple/feed/ 0 Apple releases iTunes 9.2.1, iBooks 1.1.1 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-releases-itunes-9-2-1-ibooks-1-1-1/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/apple-releases-itunes-9-2-1-ibooks-1-1-1/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:44:25 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/19/apple-releases-itunes-9-2-1-ibooks-1-1-1/ A number of news sites, such as Engadget, are reporting that Apple has released paired updates of iTunes 9.2.1 and iBooks 1.1.1. The iTunes update is largely a bugfix issue, according to its patch notes, but Crunchgear calls the iBooks release a “major update,” adding dictionary lookup of words and improvements to in-line images and [...]

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