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Katie Day

Kirkus Reviews - iPad Apps | Kirkus Book Reviews - 1 views

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shared by Katie Day on 06 Feb 11 - No Cached
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  • Katie Day on 06 Feb 11
     
    for children / YA
Katie Day

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - Accessing the e-book revolution - Stephen Johnson - 0 views

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shared by Katie Day on 31 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The difference between our time and Gutenberg’s is, of course, the rate of change. It took almost half a century for the alphabetical index to become a standard; Arabic page numbers were not adopted until the 1500s. There were feature wars in the new platform of the book, but salvos were fired only every 20 years. It may have taken a long time, but when all those features coalesced into the system of citation, indices, page numbers, footnotes, bibliographies and cross-references that we now take for granted, they helped usher in the scientific revolutions of the modern age. Entire ways of interacting with information became possible because we had agreed on how to describe where the information lived and how to point people towards it.
  • This is a story with a direct connection to our current situation. This year is the 20th anniversary of Tim Berners-Lee’s world wide web specification. The defining property of that standard was this: it established a way to describe where information lives and how to point people to it. The extraordinary run of innovation seen on the web starts with the breakthrough of web addresses and links. For two decades, this new universe of linkable data expanded faster than any other form of information. But this year, for the first time in my adult life, unlinkable information began growing at a meaningful clip.
  • Where links abound, a rich ecosystem of commentary, archiving, social sharing and scholarship usually develops because links make it far easier to build on and connect ideas from around the web. But right now, books exist outside this universe. There is no standardised way to link to a page of a digital book.
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  • Fortunately, a solution to this problem exists, one that merely involves a commitment to use technology that already exists. Call it the mirror web. If you create digital information in any form, make a parallel version of that information that lives on the web. A magazine publisher creating an iPad app should ensure that each article has clear links to a mirror version of each article on the web. Then, if anyone wants to cite, tweet, blog or e-mail a reference to that article, it is always one tap away. The web version can be behind a pay wall or some other kind of barrier if the publisher chooses; what matters is that there is an address you can point to.
  • Katie Day on 31 Dec 10
     
    discusses the danger of information on the web (e.g., inside/via apps and pages inside e-books) that cannot be directly linked to - proposes the solution is the mirror web, whereby you have parallel information online
beth gourley

Where will the e-reader revolution take publishing? - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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  • The Internet is burning up with speculation about Apple Inc.'s plans for an “iPad,” a potential new entrant in the e-reader market of low-power digital devices whose displays approach paper quality.
  • E-readers' adoption is still tiny – just 1.5 per cent of American consumers own one, and fewer in Canada – but Ms. Rotman Epps believes these gadgets will change our reading habits while throwing several industries into turmoil.
  • According to her research, book publishers are where music publishers were in 2001 when the iPod launched:
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  • “Book publishers need to understand that e-books are their future,” says Ms. Rotman Epps. “Then they need to think very critically about how to build a profitable business” around them, perhaps selling subscriptions to their catalogues or partnering with retailers.
  • It's the textbook market, however, that Ms. Rotman Epps believes will be the e-reader “killer app.” There are issues around colour (still not widely available), highlighting and note-making capabilities and various standards, but she thinks these will be solved over the next 12 months.
  • Ms. Rotman Epps thinks print media should consider subsidizing the devices for their subscribers to drive their adoption, and through them, the sale of digital subscriptions.
  • “Getting the bulk of consumers to change that behaviour will require an experience superior to that of the printed page.”
  • “You want e-readers to be lighter, flexible, more like a piece of paper.”
  • beth gourley on 08 Oct 09
     
    " Book publishers are truly facing a revolution. They're looking at a future where more of their revenue will come from e-books than from print, and the overall [revenue] pie will be smaller. "- Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps
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