A few months ago Apple fired the first salvo in filing a patent for the eBook page turn. It caught the eyes of many developers and companies making Android and iOS apps, that they might soon have to license the technology from Apple to be zapped by lasers from outer-space. Samsung obviously could not let Apple get away with monopolizing the animated page turn and filed its own patent for a different way of handling it.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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A few months ago Apple fired the first salvo in filing a patent for the eBook page turn. It caught the eyes of many developers and companies making Android and iOS apps, that they might soon have to license the technology from Apple to be zapped by lasers from outer-space. Samsung obviously could not let Apple get away with monopolizing the animated page turn and filed its own patent for a different way of handling it.
