Perhaps not too far off. It would not surprise me to see books as just another form of streaming content downloaded from your cable provider to a device in your home.
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"The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village."
- Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
"Books were only one type of receptacle where we started a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical about them at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stiched the patches of the universe together into one garment."
- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1951
- Marshall McLuhan, "Gutenberg Galaxy", 1962
"Books were only one type of receptacle where we started a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical about them at all. The magic is only with what books say, how they stiched the patches of the universe together into one garment."
- Ray Bradbury, "Fahrenheit 451", 1951
Saturday, May 26
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Wednesday, February 8
Is This Dedicated Cooking Tablet The Future Of Digital Publishing?
The QOOQ tablet is the first tablet designed for and marketed towards serious chefs and foodies for whom cooking is not just a lifestyle but a skill that you attack like you are training for a UFC Cage Fight. This dedicated tablet is designed to be Kitchen proof with durable moist proof screen that can be wiped with soap and water and used with wet hands. The tablet lays slightly off the ground on legs so it remains above any spills.
But the main thing that makes this device the future of digital publishing is not the functional ergonomic Linux-based tablet, running on a 1 GHz ARM Cortex A9 dual-core processor with a 10.1” mineral glass touchscreen that features LED backlighting. Rather it is the QOOQ content that is accessed online by subscription.
The site silos 3,500 interactive recipes, 250 technique videos, 450 ingredient pages, and 500 wine pages contributed by over 100 chefs. Part recipe aggregator, part magazine, part TV channel and part lifestyle app this is a very interesting experiment in siloing and may be a preview of what the digital publishing ecosystem will look like in the near future. Add social networking and downloadable ebooks for long form reading and as a foodista why og anywhere else? Rather than search for content from big box digital retailers (Amazon and iBookstore) people will pull content from targeted channels that will deliver multiple formats of media from text to video to interactive apps all tailored to you needs, skill level and interests based on you profile preferences. This type of content distribution I think will be particularly effective for non fiction/educational oriented subjects like cooking, crafts, history, sports, etc but also applicable to genre publishing such as romance, mystery and science fiction & fantasy.
In a digital world publishers need to begin thinking about their content as a vast pool of content to be accessed in ways beyond the artificial structure of a printed book. When people say “the app is dead” this is what they mean. With fast steaming access to the internet rather than focusing on individual media formats we should begin as publishers focusing on content and the ability to deliver it in the format appropriate for the task from a single respected subject silo that draws a social community of like minded users looking to participate in a lifestyle. The Digital future is about information delivery not “product” delivery.
Wednesday, November 23
Newest Airport Security Threat - Will X-ray Machines Destroy Your Kindle? →
As if you didn’t have enough to be worried about in airports this holiday season. Real risk or an Apple disinformation plot?
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Friday, October 7
Kindle and patron privacy →
Kindle users should be aware of possible threats to their privacy inherent in the new library ebook lending service.
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Thursday, October 6
Electronic Reader Privacy - California's new law →
This is important. Think about it.
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Wednesday, October 5
Saturday, September 24
Library Babel Fish: A college librarian's take on technology →
It’s partly a function of the kind of library I work at—undergraduate, residential, small—and partly my skeptical nature, but I still am not convinced we should invest in vast collections of books we don’t choose and don’t really own. So before I market something, I need to be persuaded my community needs it. And so far, there’s no demand….[More]
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Friday, September 23
Tuesday, September 20
How ebooks can't reach the poor, and libraries can. →
Was linked to this lj post through Neil Gaiman’s twitter. It’s a good read.
How many of these people do you think have access to an ebook reader?
I grew up so far below the poverty line that you couldn’t see it from my window, no matter how clear the day was. My bedroom was an ocean of books. Almost all of them were acquired second-hand, through used bookstores, garage sales, flea markets, and library booksales, which I viewed as being just this side of Heaven itself. There are still used book dealers in the Bay Area who remember me patiently paying off a tattered paperback a nickel at a time, because that was what I could afford. If books had required having access to a piece of technology—even a “cheap” piece of technology—I would never have been able to get them. That up-front cost would have put them out of my reach forever.
Some people have proposed a free reader program aimed at low-income families, to try to get the technology out there. Unfortunately, this doesn’t account for the secondary costs. Can you guarantee reliable internet? Can you find a way to let people afford what will always be, essentially, brand new books, rather that second- or even third-hand books, reduced in price after being worn to the point of nearly falling apart? And can you find a way to completely destroy—I mean, destroy—the resale market for those devices?
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Thursday, September 15
The Kindle Monologues: Everyone of you cunts that claim to "fucking hate Kindles" →
Aside from the fact you’re all fucking idiots, consider the following:
Do you use Amazon? If so you’re contributing to the continued evolution of the device you so passionately claim to hate.
More importantly, however - what the fuck are you doing using tumblr? Are you idiots not aware that…
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