Thursday, August 26, 2010
Printed Vs E-book
Posted by Aravind Putrevu on 6:59 PM
This poster from Newsweek summarizes the printed book versus the e-book debate. There are some really interesting stats in the graphic like:
1. Book authors, on an average, get $3.90 per sale of every printed book while the author royalty amount is $2.12 in the case of e-book downloads.
2. Average production cost for a $26 printed hardcover is $4.05 while the average cost for $9.99 e-book is around 50¢.
3. When people buy an e-reader like the Kindle or the Nooks, only 15% of them will actually stop purchasing printed books.
Printed Vs E-book
Posted by Aravind Putrevu on 6:59 PM
This poster from Newsweek summarizes the printed book versus the e-book debate. There are some really interesting stats in the graphic like:
1. Book authors, on an average, get $3.90 per sale of every printed book while the author royalty amount is $2.12 in the case of e-book downloads.
2. Average production cost for a $26 printed hardcover is $4.05 while the average cost for $9.99 e-book is around 50¢.
3. When people buy an e-reader like the Kindle or the Nooks, only 15% of them will actually stop purchasing printed books.
A Less Confusing View of World Time Zones
Posted by Aravind Putrevu on 6:51 PM
If you ever need to schedule an online meeting or a conference call with multiple people who work in different time zones, a web app called Every Time Zone should come handy.
Every Time Zone offers a unique view of the time zones around the world that is less confusing and you simply have to drag the green bar on either side to figure out the best time that may be suitable for all the meeting participants.
This is an HTML5 based app so it should work on most browsers except for IE. And since this is pure HTML, you can even use it in offline mode. Thanks @SwissMiss.
A Less Confusing View of World Time Zones
Posted by Aravind Putrevu on 6:51 PM
If you ever need to schedule an online meeting or a conference call with multiple people who work in different time zones, a web app called Every Time Zone should come handy.
Every Time Zone offers a unique view of the time zones around the world that is less confusing and you simply have to drag the green bar on either side to figure out the best time that may be suitable for all the meeting participants.
This is an HTML5 based app so it should work on most browsers except for IE. And since this is pure HTML, you can even use it in offline mode. Thanks @SwissMiss.
Facebook is Pretty Bad at Photoshop
Posted by Aravind Putrevu on 6:48 PM
What do you do when you need a group photo of your team but some of the team members aren’t around for the shoot? The answer is simple – go ahead with the shoot and add all the missing employees to the photograph later with the help of Photoshop.I think that’s exactly what Facebook did with this group picture that they recently uploaded to the Facebook India page. Look at the picture closely and you’ll notice that the two women who seem to be standing behind their male colleagues aren’t there for real.
The picture seems to be part of Facebook’s thank you project which is quite a good initiative but I can’t think of a reason why they had to such a clumsy Photoshop job for that.
