Future?
Video by Editis ("where creativity meets publishing"), a major French publishing company.
NB! VIDEO BEGINS AT THE 50 SEC MARK.
(Video may also be viewed here if unavailable from YouTube)
11 Sept 2009
Is this Apple's e-book trojan horse?
"Tyrese Gibson’s Mayhem is the first digital book for sale on iTunes 9...""Multi-media e-Books"
4 Sept 2009
Welcome to the library. Say goodbye to the books.
5 Sept 2009
21 Sept. 2009: Letter written in response and signed by Liz Gray, President of the Association of Independent School Librarians; Cheryl Steele, President of Independent School Section of the American Association of School Librarians; Cassandra Barnett, President of American Association of School Librarians.
24 Aug 2009
if:book: a social history of the mp3
" Simply generating electronic versions of existing print books won't be enough: forward-thinking publishers need to think about how reading changes when it becomes networked."
July 2009
Predicting the Present. (EbscoHost)
"It's a rare person who treats an electronic book as a substitute for a printed book, for a lot of reasons, the main one being that computers are really, really good at distracting us....Ultimately, the problem with computers is the way we use them....That's why the extremely small minority of people in the world who read books for pleasure are likely to buy printed books. Computers are just too distracting."
March 19, 2009
if:book: will the real iPod for reading stand up now?
"So, please, can we forget about the handful of eccentrics who want to ruin their eyes wading through War and Peace on a tiny LCD screen. Instead, let's bring on the real iPod for reading: something that lets me download, archive, tag annotate, share, playlist and categorise short-form works that would otherwise disappear into the link-rot mulch of yesterday's Web. Let's figure out a business model, an iTunes for micro-articles. Let's take short-form digital writing seriously."
1 Feb 2009
The once and future e-book: on reading in the digital age - Ars Technica
Remember, the e-book is the text, not the device."
Fall 2006
More on the future of digital content [Delicious links]