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arnie Grossblatt

More Kindle Limitations Discovered - 0 views

  • As noted earlier, DRM does nothing to prevent piracy. It’s in place on the Kindle to provide proprietary lock-in for Amazon and a little hand-holding comfort for nervous publishers.  It serves to annoy and alienate potential paying customers. The Kindle has great potential as a device, but as long as Amazon continues to cripple it, readers would be advised to seek alternative e-book solutions.
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    Will DRM kill the Kindle?
Amanda Litvinov

Poised to Sell E-Books, Google Takes On Amazon - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Nothing in this article surprises me... except the fact that people were paying to view episodes of The Brady Bunch!
arnie Grossblatt

Reading, E-Books and the Brain : The Frontal Cortex - 1 views

  • For my greatest concern is that the young brain will never have the time (in milliseconds or in hours or in years) to learn to go deeper into the text after the first decoding, but rather will be pulled by the medium to ever more distracting information, sidebars, and now,perhaps, videos (in the new vooks).
Allison Begezda

Vision Groups Want Colleges To Stop Buying Kindle : NPR - 0 views

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    Amazon's Kindle is taking some knocks from the National Federation for the Blind.
Allison Begezda

School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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    A private school in Ashburnham, Mass. began to get rid of most of the school's library books and replaced them with a digital collection.
arnie Grossblatt

Notes on Unbound Books - A Conference Report (Part I) « OPEN REFLECTIONS - 1 views

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    Report on a three day gathering of experts on books, publishing and reading, to collaboratively explore the future of the book and the transformation of reading, publishing and learning.  Session videos are available.
Michael Pogachar

DC Comics offers Amazon exclusive digital sales - 0 views

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    Barnes & Noble will not carry DC graphic novels for four months after DC gave Amazon exclusive digital rights to sell them on Kindle devices.
kaysha johnston

A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work.m4v - 0 views

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    Interesting. Not sure if I agree. What works for a one year old might not necessarily be what works for her the rest of her life. But who knows, that's the point, isn't it?
Allison Hughes

Enhanced E-books and the Future of Publishing - 3 views

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    The combination of text, video, and archival media is the perfect medium for the new Jacqueline Kennedy volume
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