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A good manga : Encouragement of Living by Seji TODA

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How can I have feeling when I don't know if it's a feeling?
How can I feel something if I just don't know how to feel?
How can I have feelings when my feelings have always been denied?
Oh no, oh no

from "How?" by John Lennon

If you have had a feeling like that as John and I had, I think this book would be a good torch. Yes is the answer.

Each story consists of short sentences in a few pages so that it also could be a good text for non-native Japanese speakers to learn Japanese language.

My favorite story is "花". Coming up like a flower, coming up like a flower, coming up like a flower...

"Decision in 2009" and "Walk in Black" are also beautiful. Stories about being afraid and beauty both in standing on your own feet.

生きるススメ
生きるススメ
戸田 誠二
宙出版

References

Apple reaches Dentsu iAds deal for Japan | 9 to 5 Mac

Dentsu will be responsible for the selling and creative execution of iAds in Japan
via 9to5mac.com

Dentsu Inc. had released a beautiful app, "Ride! Ride!" This app will be the first memorial book for my family. It would be the time for our tears.

PhoneBook - Ride! Ride! - DENTSU INC. PhoneBook - Ride! Ride! (Free) - iTunes Store

Anyway, this song reminds me Ben Folds. Don't you?

An ambitious piece of eBooks work to be released very soon from HMDT

ブックビジネス2.0 - ウェブ時代の新しい本の生態系（実業之日本社）
ブックビジネス2.0 - ウェブ時代の新しい本の生態系（実業之日本社）

An eBook edition for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) will be released soon by Japanese developer HMDT. Ambitious features are below:

  • You can buy any chapter you want to buy. As you can pick and buy any songs from an album at iTunes Store.
  • You can access and browse all of the contents before you purchase. As you can do it at a real estate bookstore.
  • You can choose portrait view or landscape view. Text layouts and fonts automatically changes properly.
  • You can copy any texts with no restrictions and no DRM.
  • You can export this book to ePub format and you can read it on any devices you want. (Kindle!)
  • Texts are under Creative Commons License.
  • Integrated with Twitter client. Happy-quoting. Social-reading with hashtag #bkb20 and authors' timelines.
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単純に電子化というだけなら、PDFにしておしまいでもありだよね。でもそれじゃ自炊するのと何も変わらないじゃん。この本の内容は、本の未来について様々な提言を行っているよね。じゃ、それ全部実現しない！？

おぉ、それだそれだ、それでいこう。という具合に話がまとまって、そこからはトントン拍子。だけどそこには、既存の出版社やいままでの著者の方だったら、絶対に同意しないだろうというものもあった。でもそこは、相談したらあっさりご快諾いただけた。やっぱりこうじゃないとな！ビジネスモデルだのリスクだの議論する前に、まずはあるべき姿を提示して、それに近づけていかないと。

現段階で電子書籍が「こうあるべきだ」と思われるものを、全部入れてみた。このうちのいくつかは、今後当然のものになるかもしれないし、なくなってしまうかもしれない。ただそこで手をこまねいて議論しているよりも、ものを作ってみないと分からないこともある。だからこうして形にして世に出して、意見を問うてみたい。
アプリは、近日中にApp Storeに登場予定。ほんと、近日中。

via hmdt.jp

Steve Jobs may sell his bio only on iBookstore

Now Apple’s chief executive is set to collaborate on an authorized biography, to be written by Walter Isaacson, the former managing editor of Time magazine, according to two people briefed on the project.

The book, which is in the early planning stages, would cover the entire life of Mr. Jobs, from his youth in the area now known as Silicon Valley through his years at Apple, these people said.

via Jobs of Apple Will Collaborate on a Biography - NYTimes.com

It would be a digital book only he is capable of. And I suppose it will be on sale only at iBookstore.

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