While watching the Charlie Rose show a week ago I saw this interesting interview about the iPad. It is definitely worth a watch for anyone in the media industry. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysq7mmGaWoU&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6]
Who Said Books Had to be Written on Paper???
I must have drank some seriously potent iPhone Kool-aid while I was in San Fran for the Web 2.0 Summit. Ever since I have been back all I can even think, dream or talk about is the huge potential behind the iPhone. The problem is that some people, in some cases even Apple, do not
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Eye Science Part 1 – How we read and what a human eye can take in.
Since our mention in Wired Magazine, we’ve had a lot of great feedback from users requesting changes to our reading interface. We had the whole gamut of requests from different colors to different fonts, changing of font sizes, adding words to each cluster, subtracting words from each cluster. These are all great suggestions and they
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More Kindle News
If you are a new reader here at the Spreed:Blog, you will find out in due time that we are quite obsessed with digital publishing and the ways that we take in digital content. Spreed’s goal is to make the digital reading experience more efficient on any electronic device. Our speed reading application is only
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LifeHacker Also Suggests Spreed
Lifehacker also picked up on the Wired Magazine article today and wrote their own post all about Spreed:News. A lot of these sites see Spreed as a way to practice Speed reading. Once we release Spreed:Docs to the public and let you all speed reading your own doucments we are hoping to move away from
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Want to Learn How To Speed Read? Wired Magazine Thinks You Should Try Spreed!
Spreed was featured in this months issue of Wired Magazine as the best way to practice your speed reading techniques. It’s a quick read and gives some very helpful hints on the best way to learn how to speed read. See the article in full below. Learn How to Speed Read: Wired How-To The ability
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Spreed:News Featured on the Chris Pirillo Show
Last week we made some big announcements here at Spreed about some of our future and current products. The response from our users and the web in general was absolutely fantastic and I would like to thank and congratulate everyone for being part of a true revolution in the way people read online. Although I do not
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iPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle
In lieu of my previous post commending Vodaphone on their recent mobile ebook strategy, I think it is important to draw light on some interesting statistics that were recently brought to my attention. We know that Citigroup has estimated the total Kinde sales for 2008 to be somewhere around the 380,000 mark. Well, as of
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A Response to the Luddite Literati
The article Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind where Mark Bauerlein asks us to “restrain the digitizing of all liberal-arts classrooms” reminds me of one of the oldest jokes in the book. You know the one – a man walks into a doctor’s office and raises his arm above his head and says “Doctor, Doctor,
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E-Textbooks May Not Make Economic Sense for Students … or do they???
There was an interesting article in yesterday’s LA Time’s that gives a timely perspective on the proliferation of e-textbooks in the student market. The crux of the argument is that e-textbooks, although half the price of print textbooks, may actually not be cheaper in the long run. Students can usually return their print textbooks for
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