Cory Doctorow Meets the Giant Behemoth
Cory Doctorow has some interesting things to say about the Amazon Kindle in The Guardian. Doctorow doesn’t like it much, as it doesn’t conform to his view of the Internet, which includes the ability...
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I got my Kindle at the beginning of Christmas week. The holidays gave me a chance to show it to a number of friends and relatives who don’t read ebooks, don’t know about ebooks, and have never tried...
View ArticleThe Baby and the Bath Water
The University of Pittsburgh Press has just made an extraordinary announcement. The Press plans to make its entire backlist available for free online two years after formal, print publication. Here is...
View Articlecontra kindle
Technology Review asked for my thoughts on Kindle. Here they are, slightly emended. No one can doubt that digitization and the Internet together with various factors intrinsic to the publishing...
View ArticleThe ISBN as SKU
[mirrored at Peter Brantley's shimenawa blog] I’ve spent the last few days in New York, and had the pleasure of meeting with various interesting folks. About which more anon, separately. Many of the...
View Articlethe Kindle and the iPhone dance
Now that both the Kindle and the iPhone are out, it’s interesting to look at the very similar business strategy behind the two products. I think most of the E-Ink ebook readers in the market are doomed...
View ArticleHow the Kindle and Its Kin Will Reduce Book Sales
The Kindle is a watershed event in electronic publishing. It is not the first ebook device, and it may not ultimately be the one that will prevail (it could of course be one of several). But its...
View ArticleResearch Project on the Marketing of University Press Books
This is an announcement. I am currently working with the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education on a project to research the marketing of university press books. The project is supported by a...
View ArticleAt the apex
I’ve been reading a couple of things lately that could restore, if you were in need of such a thing, your faith in print, and in the vitality of scholarship and publishing in the digital age. The...
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