Part of the book tries to answer the question of what effect the Internet is having on our brains. I am not sure you can do any of that stuff with an iBook anyway. In that way, each chapter will become like a blog post with reader comments and discussion. Each chapter has a 2-D barcode that can be scanned with a camera phone to bring up a corresponding Webpage with all of the links referenced in that chapter, videos, and the ability to comment. I caught up with Bilton a couple weeks ago, and he showed me a preview of the mobile website, which he explains in the video above. There will be an accompanying iPad app, iPhone app, and mobile website. Bilton’s publisher, as a division of Random House, does not make its titles available in Apple’s iBook store. The book will be available in September in print, digital editions for the Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s eBooks, but not for the iBook. Bilton, who previously worked in the R&D department of the New York Times, has a book coming out titled, appropriately enough, I Live In The Future & Here Is How It Works.Īpparently, that future does not include Apple’s iBooks, the digital books Apple sells on the iPad. (His official title is lead technology writer because the New York Times doesn’t like to admit it employs bloggers, I guess). You can find the future in new technologies and the people who wade into them early on-people like Nick Bilton, the chief blogger for the New York Times. The future, as William Gibson once said, is already here.
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