Last November, Kobo launched a $30 remote control for their ereader that “quickly sold out and remained out of stock for several months.” The Verge offers appreciation for the tiny innovation: “I’m not ashamed to admit the Kobo Remote is the best gadget I’ve bought this year.” Spanish author Ausiàs Tsel “spent four months trying to answer a simple question: Has this book been translated into my language? Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.” As a result, he built Zenòdot, a “multilingual platform for discovering a book’s translations worldwide” by “cross[ing] […]
