Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Danish bookstore goes mobile
The largest online bookstore here in Denmark, Saxo, has just announced that it will be launching a mobile version of their shop, designed for, you guessed it, the mobile phone.
This is no doubt a sign that the mobile web is growing, and the iPhone and Android phones are no doubt going to fuel that tendency. Which is good, really good.
The Saxo mobile shop works in the simple way that you type "Saxo" into an SMS message and send it to 1230. This will send you a link for the mobile shop. During my short test, however, I was only able to purchase a single book (entitled "Cash"), which is probably the result of some kind of error or the fact that it's still in an early/test phase.
The mobile shop is done in corporation with DIBS, which is one of the largest providers of secure payments here in Denmark and their solution is already used by a variety of Danish online shops, and Cellpoint Mobile, who delivers the mobile platform.
So, as soon as the shop will be fully functioning I'll be sure to have e good look at it. Image, now you can buy that particular book while your friend is recommending it to you. Talk about impulse shopping :-)
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30 terabytes of old English public domain literature to go online
BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.
The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.
Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, the New York public library and the Bodleian library in Oxford.
Read the BBC News article for more information.
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A new book for the shelf
I just ordered this book on Ubuntu - let's just hope it delivers as much as it promises :-)
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WordPress Pro Development
I just pre-ordered this book, called "WordPress Pro Development".
I haven't really been able to find any other information about the book, except »Deals with computers/software«, as Amazon writes.
But I hope it contains a lot of tips, tricks and code examples of how to customize or build upon the WordPress platform. Let's face it, PHP rocks! ;-)
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