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 Hieronimo Squarciafico [who, after Gutenberg's printing press] worried that the easy availability ...

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 an article linked from the company blog, the digitalist: A book publisher’s manifesto for ...

Staying with a musical theme (David Bowie, this time) e-books have been hitting high spots - as witnessed by several recent postings here, and also by one of the many postings from the SLA Conference in Denver: E-Books on Steroids. A resurgence of US interest in e-books was demonstrated by a packed room (“This has been the explosion year for ...