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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
Continue reading...Futures of the Book
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Savvy publishers, [Visel] says, “should be establishing themselves as brands or curators.” And they “could be in the business of providing community to the readers: allowing readers to have conversations with authors or like-minded readers. Books Have Many Futures I also like Visel’s phrase: “there are futures of the book.”
Continue reading...Literary Journals and the Internet
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Comments and opinions from the editors of a variety of literary journals about the challenges the Internet poses to those journals. My favorite quote comes from Russell Scott Valentino, editor of The Iowa Review: Some print lit mags will thrive, but it won’t be for ideological reasons. It will be because they have a viable [...]
Continue reading...Kindle and iPad Displays
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Link: Kindle and iPad Displays: Up close and personal This is an interesting series of high-magnification photos of the Kindle and iPad, also compared with newspaper, magazine, and book photos. My eyes like the Kindle, but my geek likes the greater versatility of the iPad. Decisions, decisions …
Continue reading...Towns without Bookstores
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Link: A Rebirth for Independent Book Stores? Over the past two years, there are signs of resurgence in popularity—even prosperity— for those independent booksellers that remain. A number of factors account for the rebirth of independent bookstores … [including] the use of social media to strengthen relationships with customers, expanded book events, and new in store [...]
Continue reading...Filtering the Self-Published Market
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
‘Writers Are More Desperate Than Any Time Since I’ve Been Watching’ – Rick Moody I also worry about the inevitable morass of an unfiltered, self-published e-book market, but Moody points to the role publishers and editors could play to make such a market navigable while still preserving some of the openness and experimentation that print [...]
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More Opportunity, Less Reward
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Mike Masnick asks: Which Is Better: A Tiny Number Of Creators Hitting The Jackpot… Or Many Making A Living Wage? What the changing marketplace and lowering barriers now allows is for people who almost certainly never would have won that lottery ticket in the past to make a decent living doing what they love: creating [...]
Continue reading...Defining Bad Writing
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Biting criticism from Anis Shivani in an article on the Huffington Post “The 15 Most Overrated Contemporary American Writers“: If we don’t understand bad writing, we can’t understand good writing. Bad writing is characterized by obfuscation, showboating, narcissism, lack of a moral core, and style over substance. Good writing is exactly the opposite. Bad writing [...]
Continue reading...Anthologize: From WordPress to eBook
Friday, August 6, 2010
Dan Cohen announces Anthologize: Anthologize, software that converts the popular open-source WordPress system into a full-fledged book-production platform. Using Anthologize, you can take online content such as blogs, feeds, and images (and soon multimedia), and organize it, edit it, and export it into a variety of modern formats that will work on multiple devices. This [...]
Continue reading...Shifting Author-Publisher Dynamics
Thursday, August 5, 2010
I like where Doug Johnson is going with this: Publishers will be around for quite awhile. But my sense is that the dynamics of the relationship between publishers and authors is changing. It may well be that publishers will be working for authors rather than authors working for publishers. And remuneration for “services” will be [...]
Continue reading...Amazon, Apple, and Books Behind Bars
Friday, May 21, 2010
Kermit Hummel in “Apples and Oranges” on the Publisher’s Weekly blog: [Amazon’s] tools and tricks went a long way toward giving online book buying some of the look and feel that previously had been the domain of the well-read independent bookseller … Amazon’s device prowess with the Kindle has proven to be limited. But its [...]
Continue reading...The Opposite of ‘Open’ is ‘Theirs’
Friday, January 15, 2010
From TechDirt: There is definitely a sense that part of the reason why some folks would like to pull back on openness is to turn the internet from a platform for users towards a more controlled broadcast sort of platform. That is, it won’t be about communication, but about content delivery — and when you [...]
Continue reading...Adapt or Expire
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Says Murdoch, of Google, “If they were to pay everybody for everything they took from every newspaper in the world, and every magazine, they wouldn’t have any profits left. Bing Tries To Buy The News Of course, Google doesn’t actually “take” anything, it just points to things. I guess Murdoch doesn’t want people to know [...]
Continue reading...E-Books Designed to Fail
Thursday, October 15, 2009
From the article: Digital books locked to individual physical devices are worse than physical books. Ebook economics: Are libraries screwed? Of course, if the priority is to maximize profits and other concerns are not even a distant second, then this is the expected result.
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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Monday, August 30, 2010
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