The Technologizer has written a super in-depth review of the new Nook eReader being sold (though not yet fulfilled) from Barnes and Noble. Overall, he finds it a mixed but promising offering.
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The News Hour with Jim Lehrer dove into the discussion about how reading and publishing is changing as a result of big box retailers with their pricing wars and as the web and digital devices begin to circumvent the old publishing industry. It’s a thoughtful 11:30 minute take on the state of the book world [...]
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Yeah, you heard me right, that’s not a typo – it’s “Vook“. Strange name for a great overall concept and product that’s a harbinger of what’s to come. All you stodgy warthogs who think that it’s only about the printed page need a reality check. Most authors care about delivering their message and the printed [...]
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Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land has a candid and lengthy interview with Eric Schmidt on the future of newspapers and journalism, along with clarification of Google’s interest in the discussion. It’s a really well-done and thoughtful interview that is well worth your time and may surprise you on many fronts. I was especially intrigued [...]
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An interesting look behind the red velvet curtain known as Netflix. You get a bit of the CEO profile (which is worth reading if you’re an internet entrepreneur) and a healthy does of their stealthy, healthy business model. Rather than design its own product, it would embed its streaming-video service into existing devices: TVs, DVD [...]
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The idea of fictional overlays for everyday buildings and objects intrigues me – when it’s a Pynchonian fiction overlay, it makes me ecstatic. Wired Magazine has an “Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles” annotated map and data graphic. Visual triggers like this can change the mundane into the extraordinary. Everything, every place, everybody has [...]
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The New York Times has Jeff Bezos giving up some new details on the Kindle ebook and ereader businesses in a short technology piece. The fact that they are independent businesses is probably the largest tidbit, and I think will silence a lot of critics who have been flogging Amazon for pushing a highly proprietary [...]
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Wired Magazine has a list of “Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Fiction” which is worth a perusal. The ones that resonate the most with me right now are these: 5. Ink-on-paper manufacturing is an outmoded, toxic industry with steeply rising costs. 8. Long tail balkanizes audiences, disrupts means of canon-building and fragments literary reputation. 17. Polarizing [...]
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The Morning News (which is day in and day out one of my favorite websites) has an intriguing comparative photo study by Charlie White of teenage girls and adult male-to-female transsexuals. The images place a teenage girl side-by-side with a visually similar transsexual. The photos juxtapose two completely different lives in transition reaching a point [...]
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I have seen the future! My girlfriend and I love to travel. Whenever we’re getting ready for a trip, I saturate myself with literature from the areas we’re going to be visiting. Before London, I brushed off my Charles Dickens and some stories of Jack the Ripper. Before Prague, I picked up Kundera’s “Unbearable Lightness [...]
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