Another week, another Kickstarter project that gets many $$$$$$!! There’s nothing you can’t do (and nothing that can’t be funded) with the KS platform really. Need a thousand dollars? KS Ten grand? KS maybe a million? KS too! …
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Goya by Diego Olmos
Diego Olmos is mostly known in the US & Spain for his works with DC comics (he’s behind the Supernatural adaptation of the TV series, or Batman in Barcelona, Catwoman.. for ex), but from time to time he …
↓ Dwarsligger
Coming directly from Holland here’s an idea that could kill all those electronic readers and eInk technologies & stuff the “Dwarsliggers” or “Librinos” as they call them in Spain. Ok ok, they certainly won’t kill any Kindles or Nooks, but, it’s a good initiative editorials are using to survive while adapting to the new world…
Marisa Tonezzer from Ediciones B (a fairly well known editorial in Spain and Latin America) went to the Turin Book fair last June and discovered these little things that are having quite a big success in Holland, a simple & practical idea that they’ve now brought to Spain under the name of “Librinos”.
Books that reduce the size of the traditional editions by 2/3…
For those defenders of the physical feeling a real book can give, these come in handy (I’m still doubting how I feel about this), for the eBook store owners and eBook manufacturers (oh btw! Google just launched their xtimes delayed eBook store 2 days ago), this is just more make-up to the dying concept of traditional books.