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The Future of the Book

John Frederick Kaufman wrote 2 days ago: Personally, I don’t see how the book or magazine or newspaper as it exists today can be improv … more →

Tags: The Book

We Pause for this Commercial Interruption: Newton and the Counterfeiter/Kindle redux edition1 comment

Tom wrote 1 week ago: Well, that was an annoying ride. I mean the seemingly endless saga of achieving the possibilty of Ki … more →

Tags: Good Books, History of Science, Newton and the Counterfeiter, science writing, self-aggrandizement, kindle, Publishing follies

paper, paper, paper1 comment

Jeff Peachey wrote 1 month ago: Before Jacques Derrida died, he used to teach a yearly seminar for grad students at New York Univers … more →

Tags: Book Conservation, technology, Philosophy of Technology, public perception of books, history of reading, Reading / Books, eBooks, paper

Getting Self-Published and Other Book Related Links1 comment

melspence wrote 1 month ago: Want to self publish? How about Harlequin? Harlequin is starting a a package service for self publis … more →

Tags: COM540, technology, The Internet

The Google Book Settlement grinds on

culturalpolicyreform wrote 1 month ago: Sherwin Siy has a post that helpfully updates us all on the latest twists and turns in Google’ … more →

Tags: Publishing, Copyright, Google, cultural economics, Digital Literacy

The Future of the Book: Readings for Thursday, 11/12

jessicabarr wrote 2 months ago: Below are links to six articles; I’ve assigned one person to each article. There’s no pa … more →

Tags: Digitization, the canon

Philip Roth predicts the end of the novel

culturalpolicyreform wrote 2 months ago: Philip Roth. Image from The Guardian / Orjan F Ellingvag / Dagbladet / Corbis. Philip Roth is not my … more →

Tags: Philip Roth

The Visual Representation of the Future of the Book

melspence wrote 2 months ago: Now that most of my research on the future of books is done, it time to start thinking about an effe … more →

Tags: Research, Com530, COM540, Visual Representation, Design

QWC Blog Tour stops by Another Lost Shark3 comments

gnunn wrote 2 months ago: The good folk at QLD Writers Centre have set sail on a blog tour from October to December this year, … more →

Tags: interviews/artist profiles, Where do the Words Come From?, Another Lost Shark, Blog Tour, Dionysus & the Fire, Graham Nunn, mt gravatt, Never arm a man who can't dance, Ocean Hearted

The Australian book industry shoud be prepared for the Kindle. It's not.

culturalpolicyreform wrote 3 months ago: The recent announcement by Amazon that it will release an international version of the Kindle has ta … more →

Tags: Digital Economy, Publishing, Digital Literacy

Kindle, letteratura erotica e il futuro del libro5 comments

Nicola di Bowery wrote 3 months ago: Molti chiamano l’estate appena conclusa “summer of death“; e in effetti ci hanno s … more →

Tags: Almanacco Editoria [Publishing], Summer of Death, Amazon kindle, daily beast, Perseus, Espresso Instant Book Machine, Pornography, early adopters, Erotica

The Google book settlement: delayed indefinitely?

culturalpolicyreform wrote 3 months ago: The New York Times is reporting that the Google book settlement has been delayed by the judge, perha … more →

Tags: Cultural Policy, Google, Digital Literacy

The End of Books by Robert Coover

melspence wrote 3 months ago: If you’ve every read The End of Books by Robert Coover, you know that in the essay Coover talk … more →

Tags: Research, Com530

Say What?! Only on the Kindle?

melspence wrote 3 months ago: Do you own a Sony Reader…or Cooler…or any ebook reader besides a Kindle?! And you want t … more →

Tags: COM540, technology

On Books Part 1: Why Books?1 comment

melspence wrote 3 months ago: 4 Things to know about me and books…. 1. I have hundreds books in my personal library, and thi … more →

Tags: Research, Com530

Guy Rundle on parallel import restrictions for Australian books

culturalpolicyreform wrote 3 months ago: In Fairfax’s relaunched National Times, Guy Rundle has a perceptive essay on the unsustainabil … more →

Tags: Cultural Policy, Creative industries, Publishing, cultural economics, Digital Literacy, Parallel Importation Restrictions, guy rundle

Research Proposal: The Future of the Book2 comments

melspence wrote 4 months ago: General Thoughts: It would be hard to believe a couple of years ago that you would be able to predic … more →

Tags: Com530, Research

Google's book search: A "disaster for scholars"?

culturalpolicyreform wrote 4 months ago: Geoffrey Nunberg thinks so. Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, he points out the many app … more →

Tags: Google, Digital Literacy

More on the future of the book

culturalpolicyreform wrote 4 months ago: In today’s Australian newspaper, Susan Hayes from the Literature Board of the Australia Counci … more →

Tags: Australia Council for the Arts, bob stein


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