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08 July 2008 08:28

On reading and design: more thoughts

I have just been reading a short editorial piece by Patrick Tucker in The Futurist : The 21st Century Writer . It is a reflective piece on Tim O’Reilly’s “Tools of Change” conference, and focusses on publishing in an electronic age. Unsurprisingly. For Read More...
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27 June 2008 09:02

Writings about e-book publishing, 2008: update

There has been a rush of article added to my Writings about e-book publishing, 2008 over the last 5 or 6 weeks. So much so, that it is already approaching the length of last year's page! The last item to be added, an article by Laura Dawson in Book Business Read More...
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10 June 2008 13:25

A necessary change in reading?

I often write about reading in this blog; it is a fairly natural - even logical - progression or collocation for anyone thinking about information, books or libraries. In Is Google Making Us Stupid , Nicholas Carr wonders if - like the Italian humanist Read More...
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09 June 2008 16:57

Is Bluster over Google Book Search = Shame that publishers didn’t get there first?

I do not really like quoting at length in my blog entries, but the article that I am referencing here is such an important article from the house of a major publisher, that I think it is warranted. Sara Lloyd of Pan Macmillan Digital Publishing has written Read More...
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03 June 2008 10:27

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

… and what does Ray Bradbury mean when he says that There is no future for e-books because they are not books at BookExpo America When, or indeed, why is a book not a book? If we take digitized version of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence , or even of Read More...
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