A recent article in “The Walrus,” Jon Evan’s Jon Evan’s Apocalypse Soon, draws the conclusion that “the oncoming digital meteor will hit today’s publishing industry hard, and its dinosaurs are going to die.”
Google and the Messiness of the Book
How E-Readers Spent Their Summer Vacations...
The Washington Post’s technology consultant, Mike Musgrove, discusses his experience with the Sony Reader on his beach vacation in this weekend’s edition of the Post.
Try Out the Espresso Book Machine
Another Option for Adaptation
In light of this guest blog entry, by Elizabeth Spitz and Cristina Sadurni, two teenaged interns over at O’Reilly, expostulating to publishers the necessity of considering the new ways and reasons people, especially younger people, already carry on literacy in ways other than through reading books, I find the release of CommentPress 1.0 an interesting development in the future of content generation.
Horton Hears a Review: Word-of-Mouth Goes Mainstream
The Future of Co-op
Laura Dawson makes an interesting point on her blog, LJNDawson. com, about the future of co-op spending and what it looks like in the world of online book communities like Shelfari and Librarything.
