Feedbooks: Grand Prix "Internet et Services" du Tremplin Entreprises 2010 au Sénat
Feedbooks créée en 2007, a développé une plate-forme universelle de distribution et de publications de livres électroniques.
Elle est lauréate du concours création d’entreprise de technologies innovantes « en émergence" et "création développement."
TechCrunch: Traveling Geeks in Paris
“I had the pleasure of meeting great entrepreneurs with some good ideas in those places, and although I will not be covering all 15-16 of them here in depth in this post, I’m looking forward to catching up with them later to talk more about what they’re building. These are my personal favorites though: Pearltrees, Feedbooks, Cedexis, Gostai and Zoomorama.”
New York Times: Apps That Turn Pages, and Save Money
“Aldiko is an app for Android smartphones like the G1 from HTC and the Samsung Moment. It supports the e-pub format and is linked to the Feedbooks store, where you can download free e-books that are in the public domain [...]”
“For the iPhone and iPod Touch, Stanza supports the e-pub book format. You can buy e-books from any site that sells the e-pub format, or download one of the 50,000 free e-books in the public domain from Feedbooks [...]”
SVM: Prêts pour la révolution eBook
“Une bibliothèque qui est aussi un service gratuit d'autopublication pour les auteurs, et qui fait lui-même les conversions ePub.”
ReadWriteWeb: BookServer, A Plan to Build an Open Web of Books
“The Internet Archive has just unveiled their ambitious project called BookServer, which will allow users to find, buy, or borrow digital books from sources all across the web. The system, built on an open architecture and using open book formats, promises that the books housed there will work on any device whether that's a laptop, PC, smartphone, game console, or one of the myriad of e-Readers like Amazon's Kindle [...]
Today, a few booksellers have partnered with the BookServer system including Feedbooks, O'Reilly, Adobe, and the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project.”
Kim Komando: Cool Site of the Day
“Feedbooks offers thousands of free e-books. You can choose from classics that are in the public domain. Or, you can download new titles by lesser-known writers.
There are different versions of the books. You can read them on most readers, including the Kindle. You can also just read them on your computer’s screen.
But, I like that I can read them on my iPhone—without downloading anything! I just open up the books in the Safari Web browser.”
The Consumerist: How To Load Up Your Kindle With Non-Amazon Ebooks
“If you don't already use Feedbooks, you're denying yourself access to what amounts to the free, open-source version of the Amazon Kindle store. [...]”
“If you've committed to an e-reader you can fill 'er up for free, you just have to know where to get your reading material. Feedbooks is a handy e-reading platform that's compatible with all major mobile devices [...]”
Actualitté: Paulo Coelho propose de ses nouvelles sur Feedbooks
“Partisan de la première heure de l’édition numérique, Paulo Coelho démontre, en publiant quelques-unes de ses dernières nouvelles sur Feedbooks, son attachement aux nouvelles formes d’échanges. [...]”
Le Point: Gros plan - Une bibliothèque numérique
“Les livres dématérialisés, certains y croient dur comme fer. Hadrien Gardeur et Loïc Roussel font partie de ces gens-là, à tel point qu'ils en ont fait une bibliothèque en ligne, Feedbooks.com. [...]”
CNET TV: Free e-books for Kindle
LCI - Plein Ecran: La vague e-book arrive
Computerworld: The e-book challenge: Sony Reader PRS-700 takes on Amazon's Kindle 2
“If you're a reader of older books but would rather get your public-domain literature without the extra charge, there are ways. For example, Feedbooks.com offers a Kindle Download Guide. If you go to the Web site using your Kindle and download the guide, you can then download a variety of Kindle-friendly books that are either in the public domain or were written by authors who want to distribute their works free of charge. [...]”
Teleread - The Digitizers: Interview with Hadrien Gardeur, Feedbooks Co-Founder
“Hadrien’s technology now helps various e-reading apps serve in effect as book tuners. These include such programs as Stanza (the iPhone reader shown at left) and FBReader (a possible candidate for official use on the next OLPC laptop). From within those apps, his technology lets you directly search and call up items from Feedbooks’ collection of public domain classics and contemporary works. [...]”
Les Echos: Le livre numérique à la recherche de son « lecteur »
“La bibliothèque en ligne Feedbooks affirme avoir enregistré 5 millions de téléchargements gratuits sur iPhone dans le monde depuis août dernier, dont 200.000 en France. [...]”
E24: Le livre électronique prêt à décoller
“Mais Feedbook, start-up qui propose une bibliothèque en ligne accessible notamment à partir de l'iPhone, revendique 5 millions de téléchargements gratuits sur le téléphone d'Apple… principalement dans les pays anglo-saxons. [...]”
Heise: Sony Reader ab heute in den Läden
“Zudem bieten diverse Webseiten wie Project Gutenberg oder Feedbooks kostenloses Lesematerial (Public Domain) an. [...]”
New York Times: A Walk Through a Crop of Readers
“With Stanza, you can buy books from a variety of e-book retailers directly from the phone. Using the virtual keyboard, I searched for and downloaded a free book from Feedbooks in less than a minute. [...]”
Wired: Bookworm Gives a Boost to Open-Source ePub E-Book Format
“There are literally tens of thousands of books available for purchase as .epub files, and thousands available for free from sites like Feedbooks.com [...]”
New York Times: Staying Informed Without Drowning in Data
“Feedbooks, an e-Book platform, also offers a version of a digitized newsstand that can be delivered to a laptop or mobile device not only in PDF but also in formats compatible with a Cybook or a Sony Reader. [...]”
Interview sur Read Write Web France
“Rencontre avec Hadrien Gardeur, co-fondateur de Feedbooks, plateforme universelle multi-supports de diffusion d’e-books.”
“Comment fonctionne l'e-book? Quelles incidences à terme sur le monde de l'édition? Quels seront les futurs usages de lecture? Reportage sur le livre dématérialisé.”
A nous Paris: Vieux classiques, nouvelle lecture
“La source de cette petite révolution n'est nulle autre qu'une startup française nommée Feedbooks [...]”
International Herald Tribune: Digital revolution comes to printed word
“The world of books is going digital, too.”
IDPF Press Release: Frankfurt Book Fair
“Feedbooks.com surpasses 2,000,000 EPUB downloads to reading devices.”
Forbes: IPhone Steals Lead Over Kindle
“In the meantime, Stanza's scarce supply of new content hasn't stopped users from finding plenty to download. According to Paris-based Feedbooks, Stanza's largest distributor of content, the application's users have downloaded more than 2 million books.”
O'Reilly TOC: Q&A with Hadrien Gardeur, Co-Founder of Feedbooks
“Feedbooks is a Web-based service that converts, catalogs and distributes ebooks in a variety of formats. Co-founder Hadrien Gardeur discusses Feedbook's system and future services in the following Q&A.”
“Présentation de Feedbooks aux côtés du Sony PRS-505.”
Wired: Free Software Turns the iPhone Into an E-Book Reader
“Stanza hooks up to website Feedbooks, which offers public domain and Creative Commons texts to download for nothing. The entire catalog can be searched from the iPhone and texts directly downloaded -- no computer required. And because these are tiny text files, the downloads are almost instant.”
Kim Komando: Cool Site of the Day
“Amazon's Kindle may be a hot seller. But electronic book readers haven't really taken off.
Oh, publishers are developing books for these readers. In fact, you'll find plenty of e-books online. Many are free.
You don't always need a special reader for e-books. Many will work with smartphones.
Such is the case with the books offered by FeedBooks. The site has thousands of titles free for the taking..”
Lifehacker: Feedbooks Creates PDFs from RSS Feeds
“Need some fresh e-reading material for your commute, but all out of e-books? Feedbooks, a free RSS aggregator, takes in RSS feeds and spits out compiled PDFs in formats for pretty much any e-reader under the sun, including the Kindle, or you can create custom PDFs (with a free registration) for standard screens. The PDFs even come with a table of contents, and the site offers up a few free e-books of its own.”
43 Folders: Free Books for your Amazon Kindle
“Feedbooks is the service I highlighted as being the most interesting of the three to me since you can download one Kindle/Mobi book containing clickable links to hundreds (thousands?) of free and Creative Commons-licensed books that can be downloaded directly to your Kindle, usually in less than a minute or so.”
Orange launches a trial based on a 3G e-paper device. Feedbooks is one of the partners on the content side:
“Read&Go has a storage capacity of 1 Gb – more than 200 newspapers – and also contains a e-library of thirty or so books (literature, strip cartoons, children's and practical publications, etc.) provided by Feedbooks, Médiatoon (Dargaud, Dupuis, Lombard et Kana) and Mango editions.”
Entretien entre Loïc Roussel, co-fondateur de Feedbooks et Jérôme Bouteiller pour NetEco.
“[...] To create his own “publishing house”, an author needs no more than a clean digital copy of his book, a computer, a blog, and the URL of Feedbooks. He can then release his baby into the wild and do a little online promotion to get things going. If it is any good, word-of-mouth will do the rest.”
Dossier Le Monde 2
Dans le dossier Livre numérique: Gadget ou Révolution ? de Le Monde 2:
“[...] Feedbooks.com qui donne la possibilité à des écrivains amateurs de "convertir" leurs œuvres et des les mettre en ligne”
“[...] Irène Delse a poussé la logique plus loin: cinq de ses nouvelles sont disponibles sur Feedbooks.com”
Extraits:
"Gutenberg 2.0, 2ème édition" par Lorenzo Soccavo
Nombreux ajouts dans cette nouvelle édition de Gutenberg 2.0 dont 5 extraits autour de Feedbooks.
Extraits:
“[...] Les fans de ebooks vont-ils dès lors devoir prendre leur manque en patience ?
«Aux quelques dizaines de milliers de lecteurs e-paper écoulés dans le monde en 2007 (dont Sony représente environ 70% des ventes), s'ajoute désormais la lecture croissante de e-books sur téléphones mobiles, Smartphones et PDAs, marché qui a explosé au Japon en 2006 (50 M€ vs. 10 M€ en 2005), ainsi que sur ordinateur personnel, grâce à des logiciels de lecture tels qu'adobe reader. » pronostique Jérôme Archambeaud, spécialiste des livrels et administrateur de la société Feedbooks qui écoule déjà plus de 100 000 eBooks chaque mois.”
“Imagine having a free library of public domain classics in the air, and a device the size of a paperback that can download any title on the list anytime you want. Imagine the library also has some newer creative commons licensed works.
Done.
Thank you, Feedbooks (and Teleread for telling us). Feedbooks takes advantage of Kindle's fast, free online access -- in a really innovative way.
All the Kindle user has to do is email Feedbook's "Kindle Download Guide" to [user]@kindle.com ONE TIME. That's it.”
Meanwhile some leading conversion houses, which can turn paper books into e-books in various formats for major publishers, have been rooting for .epub since it will lower their costs in the long run and increase the value they can offer clients. Feedbooks, a mostly public domain site, already is offering scores of classics in .epub.
Readers and publishers of all kinds, then, not just public domain people but also Random House and little publishers, should thank the open-source-based Feedbooks site where co-founders Hadrien Gardeur and Loïc Roussel are fighting the good fight for genuine compatibility and setting a good example.
If you are book lover, a passionate writer or just a collector of weird newspaper articles, check out feedbooks.com. There are three main functions on Feedbooks.com: discover and download published material, publish your own creations and create a newspaper about of RSS feeds and widgets. The discovery section really blew me away as I clicked and downloaded 1984 in about 55 seconds. Searches are intuitive and for a reader who is bored, there is a list of popular material, new books, random lists and “advanced” searches.
Designed for ebook readers and other mobile devices, FeedBooks helps you find public domain and creative commons materials, publish and share your own content, or create your own pdf newspaper from popular RSS feeds. This site is specifically for the Sony PRS-500 & iRex iLiad, however, downloads are available in pdf format as well.
Les problématiques actuelles en matière de livre numérique tournent autour du fait que les données sont actuellement très hétérogènes au niveau de la forme, de la mise en page et du support (type de fichier).
De plus, le nombre de formats de fichiers (doc, pdf, rtf, format propriétaires...) ne cesse d'augmenter.
Le marché du livre numérique est nouveau. Il est désagréable de lire sur un écran ou PDA. L'arrivée de nouveaux périphériques utilisant la technologie “ e-ink ” qui permet un rendu papier (comme le modèle Sony, ou bientôt celui des “ Échos ”) a donné une réalité au livre numérique.
Notre plateforme a pour but de fournir du contenu numérique et repose sur la technique suivante :
Découverte de la jeune entreprise Feedbooks. Feedbooks est une plateforme développée, entre autres par Hadrien Gardeur, qui permet le téléchargement de documents formatés en fonction des contraintes techniques du support de visualisation. Nombreux livres à emporter sur un support électronique ! Mais en plus, il est possible de créer soi-même son " journal " avec les différents flux RSS mais également de publier ses écrits.
"Gutenberg 2.0" par Lorenzo Soccavo
“En même temps, nous pouvons prévoir que le lecteur sur reader souhaitera être un lecteur actif, voir un lecteur également auteur, comme sur la Toile avec les wikis, par exemple.
Le projet Feedbooks, projet français malgré son nom et son interface en anglais, est sans doute précurseur et révélateur de cette tendance.
Ce projet a ainsi pour double objectif, de donner la possibilité aux internautes de télécharger des œuvres du domaine public pour les readers iLiad d'iRex Technologies et PRS-500 de Sony, soit, mais, surtout, via une interface Ajax de permettre à chacun de créer ses propres e-books pouvant être lus sur ces readers, dans une optique de participation et d'interaction entre les utilisateurs.”
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