Presenting a wide range of literature, this article explores the state of art in book research, paying particular attention to John B. Thompson’s interpretation of digital transformations within the book industry, as depicted in Books in the Digital Age (2005). Claiming that Thompson’s analyses are one–sided, the article applies alternative perspectives and a model of a text cycle, contending that the diminishing role of paper in text production and text distribution makes the dominant position of printed books particularly vulnerable to advances in digital reading technologies.
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Graduating to e-books: Some publishing students still clueless about E | TeleRead: Brin... - 0 views
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Ideally this essay can help enlighten both the publishing industry and educators on the need for aspiring editors to understand the new realities, not just e-book technology but also its impact on the important area of subrights, a topic that I’ll also explore below.
Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies // Centripetal Notion - 0 views
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Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.
Pandora's Click - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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To say that Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home is more a users' manual than a book is not to belittle it. Email is like an appliance that we have been helplessly misusing because it arrived without instructions. Thanks to David Shipley and Will Schwalbe, our blind blunderings are over. With Shipley and Schwalbe's excellent instructions in hand we can email as confidently as we load the dishwasher and turn on the microwave.
Simple Book Repair - Home - 0 views
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Extend the life of your books by performing simple, inexpensive repairs. We'll show you how!
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web - New York Times - 0 views
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Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
if:book: unbound reader - 0 views
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catalog and community where users can upload work or select a piece of public domain writing, create reading groups and tag literature.
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a web-based format where users can read and discuss the book right inside the text. The Unbound Reader uses "proximity chat," which allows users to discuss the book with other readers close to them in the text (thus focusing discussion, and, as an added benefit, keeping people from hearing about the end). It also has shared annotations, so people can leave a comment on any paragraph and other readers can respond.
Web Analytics: An Hour A Day - by Avinash Kaushik - 0 views
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Web Analytics: An Hour A Day is the first book by an in the trenches practitioner of web analytics. It provides a unique insiders perspective of the challenges and opportunities that Web Analytics presents to each person in your organization that touches the web.
Digital Libraries by William Y. Arms - 0 views
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This site contains the original manuscript of the book Digital Libraries by William Y. Arms, published by the MIT Press in January 2000.
The Google Exchange - 0 views
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This is a forthright exchange between two brilliant, deeply penetrating scholars, and it well encapsulates some of the most significant conundrums raised by the Google Book Search project.
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark] - 0 views
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A commentary on the rights associated with books and digital content.
NPR : Collective Wisdom: 'We Are Smarter Than Me' - 0 views
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"There's just that knowledge out there and that's the essential premise of the book: We, some of whom are unknown, are smarter than a small group of experts inside a company."
DLIST - Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis - 0 views
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Folksonomies, or user-created taxonomies, are currently used as collaborative tools to describe images, films, hyperlinks, and other objects and documents. LibraryThing is a website that lets users catalog their own book collections through the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings and social tagging. This paper records the results of exploratory research focusing on the connection between folksonomies and controlled vocabulary and utilizing LibraryThing as a possible benchmark to measure tagging’s efficacy and accuracy as an instrument for subject analysis.
UXpod - User Experience Podcast - Don't Make me Write! - an Interiew with Steve Krug - ... - 0 views
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Steve Krug talks about clarity, about deleting Solitaire from his Mac, and about his admiration for Douglas Adams and Jakob Nielsen.He also considers how we can do things well with Ajax, and the importance of user testing.Steve's excellent book is "Don't Make Me Think"
tor_podcast_083107_cbr.mp3 (audio/mpeg Object) - 0 views
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An interview with Doctorow about copyright.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Can I bring my flame thrower into Second Life? - 0 views
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"Rough Type is an independent blog written and published by Nicholas Carr. It's mainly about the business and cultural implications of information technology, though it wanders into other areas at times.Nick is a writer, editor, and speaker. He is the author of the book Does IT Matter? and has written articles for many magazines and newspapers. He was formerly the executive editor of the Harvard Business Review."
Butler WikiRef - 0 views
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WikiRef is a collaborative review of databases, books, websites, etc., that are part of the collection of Reference Resources available at or via the Butler University Libraries. It functions like a Reference User's Group that facilitates discussion between and the empowering of reference users.
Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik > Web Analytics Blog - 0 views
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Blog authors bio: "I am an Independent Consultant with a focus on speaking and consulting engagements that help organizations unlock the power of web research and web analytics to create truly data driven organizations and gain a strategic competitive advantage. I am also the author of the book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, published by Wiley."
"Imagine keyword searching through a book database, only the results come back as a picture of library stacks where the book is highlighted in context, where serendipity and browsing could happen."
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"Another idea in the physical world would be to create rooms, about the size of a study room, with walls with functionality similar to iPhone screens where one could search either through voice recognition or via wireless keyboards, then walk over to the wall of books, seeing life-size images. Touch a book, and open it with an effect similar to the Internet Archive's OpenLibrary page-turner, but using touch screen technology"