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Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 06/06/06

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Because of the interest in the future of books at the moment I thought a few links pointing the way might be of use.
Enhanced Books is an online service that offers extra features to readers. From there site:

Enhanced Books is an online hub for everyone with an interest in books. We connect paper-and-ink books to your digital lifestyle and offer publishers and authors the opportunity to “enhance” their titles with DVD-like extras and social networking apps.

The concept is nice but I wonder how much need there is for a stand alone site like this when Amazon and Google are offering or soon o offer online access to books which will inevitably offer extra features as they develop. It does look well however and is worth looking over.

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More interesting to me is Dothill Press which uses rss and blogging to promote its books. It’s an interesting concept and was around before the Pulse book reared its head. from their about page we get a profile of the publisher:

Kelly Evans is the publisher, both online and off, for hackoff.com. Many hours spent playing with Logo on a Trs80 as a child, prepared her for geekdom in adulthood. Until September ‘05, she was Director of Operations at Creative Time before being kidnapped for a self-publishing project.

My previous post mentioned the opportunities the current changes offer innovative firms, large and small. This is an example (Equally if its only product turns out to be Hackoff.com it could well prove a prime example of a team of talented individuals coming together for a single project).

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It would hardly do too ignore the book/blook that Dothill produced, so do visit the site for more of this:

Fictional CEO Larry Lazard served time in prison for hacking through bank security systems and liberating credit card numbers. He parleyed this conviction into an online security consulting business which became hackoff.com.
Larry takes his company public. Its stock price soars and collapses. Following a hostile takeover attempt, Lazard is found dead in his office.

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3 responses to “Links of Interest (At Least To Me) 06/06/06”

  1. Cas Stavert Avatar
    Cas Stavert

    I had a look at hackoff.com and it reminds me of nothing so much as a text based role playing game, or the sort you get all over the place on Livejournal and its clones, for example, Tabula Rasa This sort of thing is usually fandom based and written largely by fanfiction writers. They’ve been around in the journal/blog format for a few years now.

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  2. Nate DiNiro Avatar
    Nate DiNiro

    Eoin, I’m in charge of technology for EnhancedBooks.Com.Just so that you and your readers are aware, you can currently subscribe to an RSS feed of our books on enhancedbooks.com. In the near future, we will offer a way for our Authors and Publishers to host blogs and deliver podcast versions of the extras that we make available. Eventually our members will be able to get into the mix as well. We have plans for a whole array of social networking tools for the system which will help authors and publishers create relationships with their readers as well as driving readers to buy more books.

    Feel free to comment, I’m always interested in feedback from professionals in the publishing industry.

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  3. Steven J. Slomkowski Avatar
    Steven J. Slomkowski

    Enjoyed reading your comments about our company. It might be useful to note that we have been spending 3 years plus in an effort to define and patent what you are witnessing. In addition our intentions are only partially revealed on the beta version you see currently.

    Amazon.com’s effort, which appears to be a nice copy of the effort we launched first is currently modeled on the idea that you must purchase from them. We are agnostic. Buy anywhere, register and gain from multiple accees points. I think independece in choice will still play a role in the marketplace regardless if you are amazon.com, google or enhancedbooks.com.

    It is worth noting that what we predicted as vision 3.5 years ago is now becoming a reality so at the very least it’s an exciting time.

    Cheers,

    Steven J. Slomkowski
    President / CEO
    enhancedbooks.com

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