by Piotr Kowalczyk of Password Incorrect Please read carefully this fantastic presentation on mobile reading prepared by Brian O’Leary. It all began with first popular e-reading devices in 2006/07. E-books started to move from a desktop phase to a mobile phase. Mobile means convenience. Convenience of a printed book – and much beyond. It’s a [...]
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Brian O’Leary: mobile reading comes of age [presentation]
November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Literacy in the Graphic Novel Age
August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Recently, Nate ran a post titled “Ben Bova thinks graphic Novels are the death of literacy – I can prove he’s wrong.” The thrust of the article is that science fiction author Ben Bova thinks graphic novels demonstrate declining literacy. The Digital Reader’s rebuttal was to cite an article in Inside Higher Ed about professors whose [...]
Repurposing Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores in the eBook Age
July 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
The consensus among the ebook seers is that in not too many years brick-and-mortar (B&M) bookstores will cease to exist — all book sales will be online or wireless. If B&M bookstores continue to look and act as they currently do, I think the seers may eventually be proved right. To save B&M bookstores, and possibly [...]
Stanford Ushers In The Age Of Bookless Libraries
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · digital library
There was a piece this morning on NPR about Stanford University’s move away from a physical collection. This is actually old news (I covered it back in May), but it’s interesting. The periodical shelves at Stanford University’s Engineering Library are nearly bare. Library chief Helen Josephine says that in the past five years, most engineering [...]
The Death of “Personality” in the eBook Age
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
eBooks present some unique challenges to the “personality” of books, challenges that make me think there will yet be a very long life for pbooks, particularly hardcover pbooks.I am a book collector. I am proud of owning, for example, an excellent first edition of Sinclair Lewis’ It Can’t Happen Here. I love my first editions of [...]
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Judging Quality in the Internet Age
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
As a reader of An American Editor, you know that one of my concerns is what will happen if no one is willing to pay for news (see Is Rupert Right? Newspapers & the Paywall). Compounding my anxiety over this issue is a recent The Economist article, The Rise of Content Farms: Emperors and Beggars, which notes that [...]
Fiction in the Age of E-Books
April 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Atlantic just posted an interview of Paul Theroux, and like most all of his work it’s worth reading at least twice. Here is the intro: For better or for worse, the age of the e-book is upon us. Analysts estimate Americans will buy on the order of 6 million e-readers this year—and by 2014, [...]
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