Sentences with phrase «technology moves books»

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The book posits that companies get ruined by their own success, staying committed to a product even after technology (and customers) move on, like Blockbuster did with physical movie rentals.

The book begins with an overview of the renewable energy technologies we have now, and then moves on to discuss food, women and girls, buildings and cities, land use, transport, and materials.

«In 30 years» time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed,» reads the epigraph quoting Branson in the last chapter of the book.

Unlike old - school «design your own coupon book» titles, this book moves straight into computer technology and proceeds to the latest trend in couponing... apps, which provide deals to mobile users in any location.

«The thing we get with games that is different from what we get with books or other media is that we are able to actually build models of relationships between the different moving parts of a system and let people mess around with them, let people experience what happens when they change one variable or when they introduce a different kind of behavior,» says Ian Bogost, an associate professor of computational and digital media at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Critics insisted that his lack of experience running a technology concern would leave him at a «huge disadvantage,» wrote Doug Garr in a 1999 book about Gerstner's tenure, because the computer business «moved at a faster pace than other industries; competition came from... fanatics who thrived in the often quirky and murky world of digital chaos.»

«I found this book incredibly timely and practical to help schools and districts move from deploying technology to developing a plan to transform student learning.

PubSmart technology is Mill City Press's proprietary book publishing solution, developed specifically to ensure that your book moves through the publishing process smoothly, efficiently, and effectively.

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According to a statement from Amazon on the new features, this update will allow users of the Kindle app to access the read aloud over 1.8 million titles available in the Kindle Store using Apple's VoiceOver technology, navigate within their libraries or books using consistent title, menu and button names or navigate directly to a specific page within a book, read character - by - character, word - by - word, line - by - line, or continuously, as well as move forward or backward in the text, add or delete notes, bookmarks, and highlights, look up words in the dictionary and Wikipedia, and much more.

This move was motivated by efforts to improve accessibility and also by a mainstream desire to provide documentation that would support digital math, interactive content, and to facilitate an improved user experience on iOS and Android apps that included accessible book readers that already supported the EPUB format as well as integration with assistive technologies.

Marcus Leaver, CEO, The Quarto Group then said that «the tangible book is pretty good technology and we don't have to digitize everything that moves.

It signals how the book world has changed as technology has moved on.

Madefire was founded in 2011 by Ben Wolstenholme, CEO of Moving Brands, Liam Sharp, Chief Creative Officer at Madefire and a veteran comic book writer and artist, and Eugene Walden, CTO at Madefire and a seasoned technology entrepreneur and mobile pioneer.

We've all been down this copy protection road many times before with music and then video... and now eBooks... The publishers need to realize that change is not only inevitable, but inherently good and we're quickly moving to a dis - intermediated world... Darwin was right about who will survive (i.e. adapt or die) and the technology has been (and always will be) ahead of legislation and emerging business models... Sharing among trusted friends is basically «free marketing» and there's plenty of empirical evidence out there to support a complementary effect on book sales.

As technology advances and more books move from hard - copy print to electronic formats, people with print disabilities have for the first time in history the opportunity to enjoy access to books on an equal basis with those who can read print.

Artists have moved in to respond and capitalize on these new audiences and technologies, as the explosion of artists» books and «zines (and every other form of printed multiple you can imagine)... illustrates.»

José Antonio Bowen, dean of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, is the winner of the national 2014 Frederic W. Ness Book Award for Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning.

Recent and forthcoming books include You Are Here: Art After the Internet (Cornerhouse and SPACE, 2014), Moving Image (MIT Press, 2015), The Rumors of the World: Re-thinking Trust in the Age of the Internet (Sternberg Press, 2015), Electronic Superhighway: From Experiments in Art and Technology to Art After the Internet (Whitechapel Gallery, 2015), The Artists Who Will Change the World (Thames and Hudson, 2018), Goodbye, World!

In a move that is most certainly a sign of the technology times, legal publisher West said yesterday that it is releasing e-book editions of 29 of its most popular law books.

What makes the new service worth noting is not rocket science technology or really cutting - edge functionality but price and simplicity, combined with an unashamed resemblance to the book idiom in its presentation — a smart move, it might be suggested, in an e-book era.

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