Nick sent me a link to the COOL-ER reader, and I have to say I’m impressed. Somehow the launch of a totally new, and if I may say so, totally sexy, device passed me by. This is launching at BEA right now and is available for pre-order in the UK, shipping later this month. [...]
Shatzkin shizzle
on 27 February, 2009 – 9:47 am
Posted in eBooks, mobile
Mike Shatzkin posted a piece yesterday that seemed to me to have the ring of truth about it.
Asking the question, ‘Will Amazon’s current domination of the US ebook market persist?’, Shatzkin answers firmly, ‘No.’
He goes on to explicate the lack of a genuine compatibility between Amazon’s strengths in physical product supply, handling and selling and [...]
10 Reasons Not To Write Off Reading From A Screen
on 18 August, 2008 – 11:23 am
Posted in Publishing, Reading devices, eBooks
Below is a post I recently wrote for the new Writer’s Handbook blog- well worth looking it for aspiring and established authors alike. Much of the material comes from an earlier post for the Digitalist condensed into a more digestible format.
How to roast a duck
on 12 February, 2008 – 8:01 am
Posted in General, TOC 2008
I’m nearing the end of Day 1 at the extremely thought-provoking and wonderful O’Reilly Tools of Change conference, and I thought I’d post my top five challenging (scary?) ‘take-aways’ of the day:
40% of Internet users are tagging content on a daily basis – how many publishers are ensuring their content is taggable? (Stephen Abram, Information [...]
memory and form
on 15 January, 2008 – 6:06 pm
Posted in General
I’m currently reading the printed version of Jeff Gomez’s book-of-the-blog, Print is Dead. Gomez opens with an epigraph from Tom Stoppard:
One of the questions that haunts me – it’s a question for philosophers and brain science – is, if you’ve forgotten a book, is that the same as never having read it?
I find this a compelling question, [...]
I want to be a digital reader
on 17 December, 2007 – 11:32 am
Posted in Reading devices
On 26 November, A. N. Wilson wrote an article in his Word of Books column entitled ‘I don’t want to be a digital reader’, a review of the Kindle, and in the current issue of PC Pro there’s another. I want to compare them because PC Pro, as one might expect, gets it about right, [...]
Reading and Screens: The Big Question
on 13 September, 2007 – 3:05 pm
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
Will people ever really want to read off screens? When talking about my job I am asked this question more than any other. Books are such beautiful objects and such durable, versatile pieces of technology that they have formed the cornerstone of our culture for over five hundred years and the idea of them being [...]
