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The OPLIN 4cast » Blog Archive » OPLIN 4cast #62 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:33:26 +0000

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dvd — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:55:34 +0000

Great post. always nice to learn something new.

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e-books « Eric Jennings — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:18:40 +0000

[...] Posted May 3, 2007 This set of aticles presents a dichotomous view on e-books. One says that e-books, while not perfect, are good and are here to stay. The other says that e-books are [...]

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links for 2007-05-04 | Chris Webb: Publishing, Media, and Technology — Fri, 04 May 2007 00:37:40 +0000

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By: Chris Webb

Chris Webb — Thu, 03 May 2007 20:11:51 +0000

Great post Anne, The biggest challenge for e-books is not the readers as many claim. Instead it is the books themselves. As I posted recently in my blog, and as Joe Wikert is alluding to in a comment above is that we must stop thinking about e-books as the "pdf copy" of the printed book. '0's and '1's have much more potential to be dynamic and connected than paper.

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fade theory » e-books will succeed — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:32:17 +0000

[...] Worker Daily is the voice of reason: Why will e-book readers succeed? Not because e-books are good replacements for paper books — but [...]

By: Joe Wikert

Joe Wikert — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:24:12 +0000

I’m in the publishing industry and am a big believer in the future of e-readers. The Sony Reader is a first-generation product, needs plenty of enhancements and a much lower price-tag…but it’s an interesting start.

I tend to believe success here won’t just come from a killer device alone. We’ve also got to start thinking differently about the content and how it’s built/presented. It’s been said many times that the early TV shows were nothing more than radio programs made in front of a camera. It took awhile for everyone to learn how to truly leverage the new medium.

The same is true for e-readers. Simply porting a printed book to an e-device isn’t terribly exciting. There’s no depth to the content. How about layering the content so that I can drill down deeper into it, but only when I want/need to? How about creating rich linkage between other bodies of work so that I’ve got a very useful resource, one that can’t be replicated in the print world?

Taking advantage of the e-reader medium and re-thinking how content needs to be written, edited and presented is the key. Btw, a novel is a novel, for the most part, and may not benefit much from this. But think of the possibilities for most reference and how-to works…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 02 May 2007 06:45:30 +0000

I would not be so sure about impossibility of reading ebook in bath tube. Technology Review (see link below) wrote about epaper in 2001. Some companies are still working on this.

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/12295/page1/