The Future of the Book
August 23, 2010
Bats in the Bookshelves: The Perils of Literary Social Networking 13
by Dylan Hicks
I decided to look for another book, but each one I settled on was wrong for Goodreads: too fancy, too populist, too hip, too square, too predictable, too self-consciously curve bally. I would have to give up Goodreads or give up reading.
April 7, 2010
Connecting Readers in the Cloud 2
by Victoria Pacchiana
What if I couldn’t judge a book by a yoga mat? Would I find better matches, or perhaps more accurate ones?
April 5, 2010
Ceasing to Exist: Three Months in the Social Media Detox Ward 45
by Edan Lepucki
J. Alfred Prufrock may have measured out his life with coffee spoons; I had begun to measure mine with status updates.
February 8, 2010
Cooped up in a Bookstore, Just to Stop Reading 8
by Shaj Mathew
A new Kaiser Family Foundation study indicates a roughly 25% drop in print newspaper and magazine readership among kids ages 8-18 since 1999. Why? The answer lies in the Internet-saturated, online-only culture in which I have grown up.
January 31, 2010
Amazon eBook Pricing Battle Gets Ugly 12
by C. Max Magee
Readers, especially those who read ebooks, will have to decide whether cheap ebooks are worth the cost of Amazon’s quest for monopoly control.
January 25, 2010
Confessions of a Book Pirate 235
by C. Max Magee
“TRC” is a self-described bibliophile who has “pirated” thousands of books. How and why does he do it, and what does he think the publishing industry should do to curb the looming ebook piracy threat?
