Creating is ordinary
It’s the end of reading as we know it (and Kevin Ashton feels fine). The author and coiner of the term “the internet of things” will be coming to Tech Forum on March 12 to tell us how we can all survive the Ebookalypse.
In the meantime, you can read about the very ordinary, human act of creation in this excerpt from his new book, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery.
Engaging teachers
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free
In his latest book, Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free, Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist, journalist, and blogger, identifies three “iron laws of information age creativity, freedom, and business, woven deep into the fabric of the Internet’s design, the functioning of markets, and the global system of regulation and trade agreements.”
He’ll be discussing these laws in detail at Tech Forum this March, but in the meantime, you can read about Doctorow’s Third Law in this excerpt from the book.
Judging a book by its CSS
The one standard to rule them all
How conversion architectures can benefit book publishers
Goodbye dust jackets?
It’s 2015, book publishers. How are your prototypes for dust-repellent paper coming along?
If you’re a publisher who’s gone down a more digital path that isn’t specifically focused on the eradication of dust jackets, we want to hear from you. With your data, we’ll publish The State of Digital Publishing in Canada 2014 report so we can all get a glimpse into the future of publishing.
The prickly question of formats
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a publisher in possession of a book must be in want of an appropriate digital publishing format.
Laura Brady, principal at Brady Type, a digital + print book production studio, thinks publishers should ditch their prejudices when looking for the right format.
