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
Round 2: DRM Is Not Totally 100% Evil But Sometimes Gets Close…
on 15 July, 2009 – 4:50 pm
Posted in Copyright, General, Publishing
Thanks to everyone for the comments and apologies for igniting the whole debate again. I thought I would collect all my responses together and put them out as a post.
- My position: personally I think DRM is a pain and try and avoid it as much as possible. Professionally I recognise that as a publisher [...]
lament
on 20 February, 2009 – 9:19 am
Posted in Publishing, eBooks
… the dizzying range of easily accessible material on the internet conspires with a lack of editorial guidance to make web reading a disjointed experience that works against the sustained concentration required for serious reading.
There is an interesting piece in the London Review of Books from Colin Robinson about the impact of global economic woes [...]
my tee oh see
on 17 February, 2009 – 5:19 pm
Posted in General, TOC 2009
I’ve had a full week now to digest my TOC experience in New York and hopefully I will manage to capture in this post the many points of real value that I gleaned from it.
For those of you I didn’t meet on Twitter, it was actually me behind the @thedigitalist tweets, not Sara. Like [...]
Attention Deficit
on 27 June, 2008 – 8:01 pm
Posted in General, Publishing, Search
Whole business empires are now founded upon that most fleeting of things, at once profound and perfunctory, the human gaze. In buzzword bingo “attention economy” is a winning ticket. In this model of super abundant information invisibility is a function of excess and simply being noticed becomes the prerequisite for sucess, whether [...]
Games, Worlds, Simulacra, Virals: Part 2
on 14 January, 2008 – 6:12 pm
Posted in General
It all started with a trailer running before showings of last summer’s blockbuster Transformers. Handheld, seemingly amateur footage of a party in downtown Manhatten. Lights go out and suddenly a huge roaring resounds across New York. Before long explosions are flattening the other side of the island and the Statue of Liberty’s head [...]
Friday Afternoon Kind of Stuff
on 3 August, 2007 – 12:29 pm
Posted in General
There are two videos that are essential viewing just at the moment. They may not change your life: but they really might. Anyway try here for a video called Shifthappen. For the other video, type Web 2.0 in YouTube and watch the top choice. Both videos work much better with sound on. Neither are obviously [...]
