What is the carbon footprint of a digital book? We have to make some possibly heroic simplifying assumptions. The first point to note is that a digital book has a very, very low carbon footprint if no one reads/accesses it. This is a matter of some concern to librarians and archivists who may wish to simply preserve, or ‘back up’, large amounts of literature which will be little read. It can be held in computer memory for an infinitesimal energy … Keep Reading
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So what?
Exactly. There is really no possible interest in this line of discussion. I cited with approval Robert Darnton’s recent piece in the New York Review of Books on the Digital Library. But I missed this truly silly paragraph:
… Keep ReadingBooks also give off special smells. According to a recent survey of French students, 43 percent consider smell to be one of the most important qualities of printed books—so important that they resist buying odorless electronic books. CaféScribe, a
Magazine publishers find that special promotions can work well in recruiting new subscribers, especially when targeting a particular mailing list. We now support promotional codes. See our shopping basket. Quest Bulgaria are the first magazine to have taken advantage of our system.
Many digital edition platforms ignore and eliminate traditional pagination. They create a ‘reflowable’ text which has a loose format which adjusts its shape to the device on which the text is displayed. Exact Editions (along with Google Book Search and most of the PDF-based digital magazine systems) is firmly page-centric. And we actually use the pages, by making the Tables and Indices live resources.
So we hit problems when publishers play fast and loose with page numbers. We met this … Keep Reading
The widget is a bit easier to explain, but we will ruffle the petticoats in a minute; as for the widget, you can kick the tires of this widget immediately by clicking on the front cover of New Humanist in the right hand column. That is a front cover image of the monthly publication. The humble New Humanist widget keeps track of the front cover of the current edition. A widget that guards a monthly periodical is going to have … Keep Reading