Jonathan Franzen spoke this week about the detrimental effect ebooks have on the world, claiming that serious readers will always prefer print editions and that ebooks are ‘not permanent enough’. Quoted in the Telegraph, Franzen said:
“The Great Gatsby was last updated in 1924. You don’t need it to be refreshed, do you?
“Maybe nobody will care [...]
Rediscovering lost classics thanks to ebooks
on 2 February, 2012 – 5:54 pm
Posted in General, Publishing, eBooks
espresso ahead
on 24 June, 2008 – 3:15 pm
Posted in General
The deal has been done and print-on-demand Espresso Book Machines will be going into a major retail chain in due course – 60 Blackwells stores will have them, initially version 1.5, but eventually the more compact and faster version 2.0 (via The Bookseller).
If the EBM follows
Diffusing Baen
on 10 December, 2007 – 5:40 pm
Posted in General
A few days ago I attended a demonstration and discussion of a new kind of eBook. Now when most of us talk about eBooks we mean digital only texts; texts as downloadable files to be read on electronic media, the literary equivalent of the MP3 (ignoring the endless and tiresome format nightmare). However Proboscis, a [...]
