The Future of the Book
December 24, 2012
A Cheat Sheet for All You New Kindle (And Other Ereader) Owners 4
by C. Max Magee
For all those readers unwrapping shiny new devices, here are some links to get you going.
May 1, 2012
Are eReaders Really Green? 61
by Nick Moran
Our conspicuous (and often unnecessary) tech consumption — eReaders included — contributes to an inflating carbon footprint far beyond anything ever caused by traditional book production.
April 30, 2012
The Bathrobe Era: What the Death of Print Newspapers Means for Writers 21
by Michael Bourne
We are creating a generation of riff artists, who see their job not as creating wholly new original projects but as commenting upon cultural artifacts that already exist.
April 13, 2012
Confessions of a Reluctant Fetishist: Keep Books Adulterated 8
by Tom Nissley
I don’t mean to make a fetish out of printed books, and I’m not asking to burn (or delete) ebooks, or their devices. Maybe all I ask is that digital books be designed in ways that give them character, that help them live and survive individually in your mind, rather than being translated into a common, anonymous display that passes through your memory as quickly as you scroll.
March 12, 2012
The Beautiful Afterlife of Dead Books 11
by Kyo Maclear
Fowler’s bookshop, oddly, is one of the least depressing bookshops I know. He had accepted the book’s demise. He may be the only person I know who can openly say, and with a smile on his face, that the book is dead. Dead as a doornail.
January 26, 2012
Frankenstein’s Crowdsourced Monster: hitRECord’s Tiny Book of Tiny Stories 1
by John Davidson
The most remarkable thing about Tiny Stories is the experimental, collaborative process behind its creation and the high quality of work that’s resulted from it. This is not what one would expect from a site where anyone can upload whatever they want and everyone can remix everyone else’s work and use it to make whatever.