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Go Read This | Where will bookstores be five years from now? – The Shatzkin...
I get the sense that Mike is at his wits end on the bookstore issue. And I’d not blame him for that. There does sometimes seem to be a willful process of ignoring the impact the digital changes will...
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Go Read This | Inside View from Ireland: Rise of Social, Demise of Literary...
So Say We All! I’m concerned at the demise of literary reading–the reading of fiction, poetry, or plays. It has declined among all specified ethnic groups, at all educational levels, among all age...
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Go Read This | B.O.B., University of Texas’ $150,000 Book Machine, Readies...
I just liked this paragraph but the whole piece is interesting and well worth reading! Case in point: The University of Texas Co-Op — who is the largest seller of used textbooks in the country and the...
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Go Read This | The printed book’s path to oblivion – The Shatzkin Files
It’s a day for good articles on the future and books! It is very hard for me to grasp why anybody would prefer a printed book 30 or 40 years from now. I’m sure by then screen technology will be able to...
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Go Read This | The Book is Dead! Long Live the Book
Om is right AND wrong here. Yes the message is way more important than the medium, but there’s a real danger that in letting bookstores go we eliminate a whole raft of positive externalities. The New...
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Go Read This | Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future | Digital Book...
There is so much more to this article, but this point in particular stood out! In this model, authors stop carving out rights. They hand almost everything over to the publishers and give them maximum...
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The line between book and Internet will disappear – O’Reilly Radar
Honestly think this is inescapable. Think in truth it has been pretty obviously the future for some time. O’m not sure it will come quickly though, more likely very slowly and in fits and starts. I...
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