Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

Fascinating exploration of "social reading" and the prospect of open bookmarks.

Specification for the developing standard for eBooks, EPUB

New modes of delivering multi-media, multi-modal books (via the iPhone). I wonder if this is now dated since the advent of the iPad, or whether anything like this can really get traction if it is for a dedicated device (no matter how popular the iPhone is).

eBooks open new opportunities for finding and lending / borrowing books.

a friends idea for creating an ebbok. It looks more like a scrapbooking site. I don't know how legitimate we'd be using something like this or if it even fits our project, Just one of my friends suggestions.. .  See my post about ebook formating concerns

a jumping point to discuss in trying to decide what format we want our ebook to be in.

I thought of us when I heard this on NPR - it's a great discussion about the value of audio book among book formats, and it raises interesting points about varying level of production quality among audio books. Did you know there's an Audio Publishing Association?  That gives out Audie Awards, the Oscar-equivalent for audio books?  Cool stuff.

Why Ben Crowder (works on HBLL site) uses Creative Commons. I think open culture is so fascinating. Dr. Burton - you should do your whole lecture on scarcity v. abundance cultures. I need to digest that again and I think it'd be really interesting to the class. 

I mostly liked the 8th paragraph about how critics looking at any literature from an LDS perspective need to leave physical evidence of their work, so future LDS critics can build upon it and stop re-inventing the wheel.

A short article about the rise of e-book sales.

Opportunities to publish online literature to an LDS audience

Sound familiar?

A while back I blogged about wanting to find sites like Goodreads for movies and music.  I have discovered that FLIXSTER IS EVIL and should be avoided at all costs.  Mubi is kind of  a cool alternative.  It has a great design, which is fun, but its main focus is NOT the social aspect of it; it basically seems that it is trying to be a Netflix-like business plan.  But you can make reviews and lists, and it doesn't spam all your friends and coworkers. 

In case anybody DOESN'T listen to these things already.  Information about listening to and making podcasts directly from the Holy Land. (Apple)

research on the web that I found THRU my library research. 

Discussed in class.

A potential outlet for publishing material related to writing about literature in the digital age.

Thought this was interesting. A little borrowing from another artist, not uncommon.