Boing Boing carried this today, and they also have links to the following:
Apartment:
Rintala Eggertsson ‘Ark’ – tour of the book tower from Architects Build Small Spaces on Vimeo.
Jewelry:
Xmas tree:
Furniture:
Font:
You can’t do these with ebooks: desk, apartment, jewelry, furniture, chair, font, xmas tree
AMAZON
A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
This is almost as disturbing as an ad that I saw for a university, where they’d actually cemented real books into a wall (like bricks) and called it ‘the wall of learning’. One problem: you can’t lean from books that are cemented closed, nor can you learn from a book that’s cut up and made into art or used as furniture. Frankly, I’d be insulted if someone treated my books in such a fashion.
You’d think the pro-paper folks would be all over that…