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Fortune Breaks Down eReader Tech
Fortune magazine recently published a pretty interesting article on ereaders and the current state of the publishing industry. The author does a nice job of breaking down the basics in lay terms,...
View ArticleMore on the Missouri eTextbooks
According to a Missouri local newspaper, representatives from McGraw-Hill met with faculty from Northwest Missouri State University facutly this week to discuss how things are going with the pilot...
View ArticleApril Highlights from the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
Lately I’ve been poking around on a great directory called the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog (located here), which compiles articles about ebooks published in scholarly journals. In general,...
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Fringe Magazine Interview Swap
As promised, we’ve done an interview swap with online magazine Fringe. Editor-in-Chief Lizzie Stark was kind enough to answer our questions about digital publishing and some of the challenges of...
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Why Publishers Would Be Wise to Support eBooks
I get a little annoyed when people confuse the physical book (just a bunch of pressed wood pulp, ink, and glue) with the book itself (a collection of letters, arranged into words, arranged into...
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Self-Publishing & eBooks: What You Could Be Missing
image credit: howstuffworks.com I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of people seem to off handedly toss both ebooks and self-published (e)books into the not “real” book category, or at least the...
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Fringe Magazine Interview Swap Part 2
The second half of our interview swap (at least part 1 of the second half–we have a lot to say) with online magazine Fringe is now available on the Fringe blog. Thanks a lot to...
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Profiles in eBookery: Creative Commons
Copyright law is dastardly business, with more nickel-and-diming and squabbling over percentages than most people probably gather. The music and film industries have gone batshit with copyright law...
View ArticleJuly Highlights from the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
Each month I try and sort out some of the more accessible and interesting entries on the SEPW to share with readers interested in issues such as library digitization, open access, and electronic...
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Can we fast-forward until hardcovers are extinct, please?
Internet safety tip: DO NOT image-google "hardcover book," even with the safe search on moderate. By now, you’ve probably seen the NYT’s story on publishers phasing out the hardcover book in response...
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