Tag: E-books
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Links for readers: Ebooks vs paper redux
“The pile of unread books we have on our bedside tables is often referred to as a graveyard of good intentions. The list of unread books on our Kindles is more of a black hole of fleeting intentions.” — Craig Mod The New York Times says print is far from dead, and Craig Mod asks…
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My Little Free Library project…
I’m going to be sponsoring a Little Free Library in our neighborhood. “Take a book, return a book.” I enjoy looking at the pictures of all the little free libraries people have built. Here’s one repurposing a pay phone booth, which is extinct now, of course. It would be nice to build the equivalent of…
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Are e-books the new content farms?
Laura Miller has a great article called Spamazon at Salon.com, which explains how e-book spam is clogging the Kindle. I was toying with the idea of getting an e-book reader, maybe for Christmas, but this new development is enough to put me right off of it. It seems that these e-book spam operators are repurchasing cheap…
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The death of the book has been greatly exaggerated…
Image via Wikipedia I see that yet another pundit is predicting the death of the physical book. His argument seems to be that books will go the same way as music and movies and become completely digitized. Well, I say that person does not understand that people interact with books in very different ways than…
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Thoughts on publishing & the digital age…
I have been following all of the conversations about the future of publishing, particularly with regard to e-books, going on over the past few months with interest. I thought I’d share some of the more interesting conversations I’ve found, as well as some of my still-nascent thoughts on the whole kerfuffle. I have a bit…
Shannon Turlington 