Though the world of print is receding before a tide of digital books, blogs and other Web sites, a generation of college students weaned on technology appears to be holding fast to traditional textbooks.
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Selling Books by Their Gilded Covers - 1 views
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Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions - deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading.
Does the Brain Like E-Books? - 2 views
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Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading experience change, from retention to comprehension, depending on the medium?
Reviewing books on a Kindle - 0 views
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Ron Charles talks about the challenges of trying to adapt print-book reader behaviors to e-readers.
Readers gravitating to e-books - 0 views
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America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.
Writers Need To Stop Complaining About Amazon Making Books Cheaper - 1 views
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Amazon started life as a book retailer, and as a book retailer they made books cheaper. Then they were pioneers in the e-book industry where they made books cheaper. Their recently announced plan to give readers free e-book copies of books they buy in physical form doesn't make books cheaper per se, but it does give readers greater value for their book-buying dollar. This is all great stuff. But not everyone agrees. Emily Gould complains that "When ebooks and pbooks are bundled, the ebooks are sold at a loss. That's authors', publishers' and, associatively, non-AMZN retailers' loss" and "frustrating we have to keep explaining that ebook production is not free. digital objects are not made by elves."
For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper - NYTimes.com - 1 views
Why I'll miss a world where books make the first move. - By Mark Oppenheimer - Slate Ma... - 1 views
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Musings on the e-reader replacing the book, and how well (or not) it replaces the book as conversation-starter. Replacing the ink-and-paper book may be a bigger issue than anyone so far has actually realized....
Plastic Logic plans 2012 launch for color e-paper display -- Engadget - 0 views
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Will color really be disruptive by 2012?
MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Make an e-paper clock from Esquire magazine - 0 views
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This article discusses how to turn the e-ink cover of Esquire into a working clock. There is also a brief discussion of the cover and how it works, as well as pictures of the cover.
Paper Versus Pixel - 0 views
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Nicholas Carr on the prospects for print publications.
In Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks - 0 views
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According to the National Association of College Stores, digital books make up just under 3 percent of textbook sales, although the association expects that share to grow to 10 percent to 15 percent by 2012 as more titles are made available as e-books.
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three-quarters of the students surveyed said they still preferred a bound book to a digital version.
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The Joy of Wikis - Online Recipes Get E-Tweaks - 0 views
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The content is, also, free of editorial interference or commercial pressure. The model, enthusiasts say, has a unique ability to capture “the long tail” — providing useful information on a wide swath of esoteric subjects, like how to make pasta in a paper shredder.
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is the crowd better source of cooking information than a master chef? Could your next cookbook be a wiki?
DIY Approach for Reader Friendly eBook Conversion might not Help - 0 views
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Popularity of eBooks has soared to unprecedented levels. Paper-bound books are getting replaced by numerous technologically enhanced e-reader devices like Kindle or Nook. Following digitalization of books and changing preference of readers, many book publishers have gone or are planning to go digital.
Will the Book Survive Generation Text? - 1 views
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This shift, of course, plays into the problem, since any shrewd publishing type can see how the paper book's demise might make it easier to digitally trim, abridge, and repackage texts in more "appealing" forms than their benighted authors envisaged.
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A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton's The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009).
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A reflection on threats to sustained, immersive reading and the culture that produces it.