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Defining e-books and publishing

In the week in which my 'definition' article - Books in a virtual world: The evolution of the e-book and its lexicon - has finally seen the light of day ( Journal of Librarianship and Information Science 40 (3): 193-206; and deposited/soon available on Read More...

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...

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...

Writings about e-book publishing, 2008

I can't remember a previous year when I have had so many titles listed in the first 4 months. Admittedly, some are blog postings - but there's some interesting debate going on, and as regular visitors will know, I only select the more discoursive or debatable Read More...

It's eBook Week again!

... and we are reminded of this by, e.g. Epublishers Weekly, in their latest post, 30 Benefits of Ebooks . And there are 30, too! Slightly strangely, the Benefits are copyright - © 2008 by Michael Pastore... which presumably means I can only quote 3 here! Read More...
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