Bookish News: Social Reading

Jacki — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:15:57 +0000

I read an article in the New York Times last week sometime and it’s been kind of bouncing around in my mind ever since. The article was about how the social aspect of e-readers and so on are really changing how we read and what we read. It talks about how one of the features of the Kindle is that you can highlight passages and the “most highlighted” passages come up as underlined in everyone’s text. In this way, you can kind of tell what other people are hooking onto and that really has the potential of changing your reading experience.

It also talks about how the e-readers kind of make us more unfocused and force the reader to multi-task, where a regular book is quite the opposite. One of the lines that I really loved was this: “We are marginally less focused, and exponentially more connected.”

Pretty interesting stuff. Check it out here: Yes, People Still Read…

Bookish Thoughts: Cost of e-books

Jacki — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:29:13 +0000

This has really bugged me since the e-book craze first started- the product itself is kind of pricy, and the e-books are still just a little less than a book you can buy at the bookstore. I’ve tried to figure out how that is possible- the publishing company is taking out the cost of printing and the cost of shipment, which seems like it would make a really dramatic difference in the price of the final product.

Well. Here’s my answer:

Math of Publishing Meets the E-Book

So, there ya go.

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Bookish News: Social Reading

Bookish Thoughts: Cost of e-books