Did you know that Borders’ former VP of E-Business used to run Tower Records? Mike Cane left a comment yesterday on my post about how Borders screwed up e-readers. He wondered what happened to Kevin Ertell, who at the time was VP of E-Business at Borders. About 3 years ago Kevin had left a comment [...]
Entries Tagged as 'death'
An Interesting footnote on the death of Borders
February 27th, 2011 · 7 Comments · borders
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Meet the man who will cause the death of ebooks
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
There are days I feel I have luck like this. According to Joseph Robert Lewis, his first ebook will be published in 1 February and this will trigger a catastrophic series of events leading to the destruction of ebooks about 45 days later. (I like to get an early start on things, so today I’ll [...]
Ben Bova thinks graphic Novels are the death of literacy – I can prove he’s wrong
August 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments · opinion
The SF author Ben Bova likes to write editorials for his local paper, the Naples News. Last week he wrote a politely worded diatribe against graphic novels and how they’re a sign of declining literacy. Even though I think he’s wrong, it’s still worth a read. I’ve been thinking about his column for a week [...]
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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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Enhanced eBooks & the Death of Imagination
June 1st, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Enhanced ebooks, TV, videos, video games all share a common feature — they stifle imagination and creativity. Enhanced ebooks have a proper role to play in educating people, but perhaps not in educating the very young. OK, I admit I’m old and that I can remember back to the birth of television, when The Lone Ranger [...]
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