“Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.”
― Douglas Adams
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Barnes & Noble Nook Sale! $179!
With Google Play this may be the best device for readers on the market right now.
I just updated and downloaded apps from the Play Store. No restrictions I was able to download and install the Kindle and Kobo apps, plus various others I have gotten through Google. via Mobileread
A Hierarchy Of Sponges: 15 Predictions About The Future Of The Comic Book Industry
Some excellent and thoughtful predictions about the future of comics. I don’t agree with all of them (distribution issues are way too complex so sum up in an either/or situation) but well thought through and provoking.
If however you combine your reader, phone, netbook, and TV onto a single device you shrink the amount of devices being manufactured. That is definitely something a print book can’t do and net/net much greener. ~ eP
Today’s reader. ~ eP
😻😍😜 #laidbacksaturdaynight
#nerdykid drowning herself in youtube and great #ebooks #life ✔😝🎵
Digital publishing and the loss of intimacy by François Joseph de Kermadec |
“We could offer our customers the conveniences of digital reading in a distraction-free environment. We could build dedicated e-readers with retina screens that do not check up on Twitter feeds. We could provide a central off-switch for all sharing features. We could even allow our customers to purchase books anonymously to encourage them to step out of their comfort zone without fear of unusual prior purchases hounding them forever.
Why don’t we?”
I don’t know that this is really an accurate assumption to extrapolate from the survey. I think it is more about preferring access to the cloud and a having a single device than tablets providing an overall better reading experience. They prefer the potential flexibility to read color, listen to audio,and surf the web for more books - they prefer tablets to ereaders because they can watch Game of Thrones on a tablet. ~ eP
Shocking: tablets have overcome e-readers a preferred devices to read ebooks http://bit.ly/14ZTXzH
Technology is culture; it is not something separate; it is no longer “I.T.”; we cannot choose to have it or not. It just is, like air.
Dan Hill, On the smart city; Or, a ‘manifesto’ for smart citizens instead
I love the ‘technology just is, like air’ concept. Brings to mind the notion that fish don’t see the water they swim in. We have reached a turning point where tech is so deeply embedded in our culture, like language, clothing, and buildings before it, that its role is as central as those, and now perhaps more so.
(via stoweboyd)
Latest News Online: Comics Thing – A New Tool For Digital Comics – Kicks-Off Next Week On IndieGoGo
Comics Thing, a new tool for creating, reading and distributing digital comics, will launch their first IndieGoGo campaign Monday 18 March.
Comics Thing is a combination of a comic book reader for tablets and smartphones, a digital comics and graphic novel creator for artists, writers…
First they came for my Sony PRS700...
So it starts.
The National Day Of Unplugging. What will you do tomorrow? Read a book?
Mine are all on my ereader… I would go borrow a book but can I check Goodreads first to see what my friends have… my library only has a digital card catalog… I don’t have a land line, can I use my smartphone cause I have a few books on that… I’d take my wife on a picnic to a secluded spot to get away from technology but to find a suitable spot can I use my GPS… Hell, my glasses are prescription Google Glass…
Does anyone have a large print book that is not a romance novel that I can borrow for a day, and if you have a good picnic spot please send me a map - crap I guess FedEx it - oh wait, is a fax machine a screen?
I don’t think this unplugging thing is going to catch on.
Confirmed: Len Riggio Wants Split B&N & Buy B&N Retail Stores
…But more importantly, Riggio doesn’t see that that Nook Media has much of a future – from the viewpoint of a guy who built a retail chain, anyway. Considering that he famously doesn’t even use his own hardware, Nook Media is probably better off without him.
