Exact Editions now has a very straightforward process through which you can give a subscription to a digital magazine for Christmas (or as a present on any other occasion). I can think of two people who will be getting Opera from me this year and one who should receive Le Monde Diplomatique. We should give this present-giving feature more publicity, and two possible angles of interest spring to mind.
The London-based Bookseller’s Association has just released a report, Embracing the Digital Age, on the coming tide of digital books. It is short, non-technical, pithy, well-researched and free. It is possibly too sanguine about the potential for traditional bookseller involvement in the developing digital market. But the text points towards challenging opportunities for booksellers who can re-invent and re-position their business. The main authors (Francis Bennett and Michael Holdsworth, both experienced publishers rather than booksellers) clearly believe that the … Keep Reading
There was an amusing, very watchable, but unkind review of the Amazon eBook reader by Robert Scoble
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The review is rude and harsh to unfair (and Scoble admits as much), partly because he doesn’t dwell on the good/interesting points. He does however say that he read two books on the device, serious books (at least one of them was since it was by Greenspan). That seems to me an important plus for the Kindle. He had lots … Keep Reading
From today you can buy subscriptions to Exact Editions magazines as gifts.
Suppose that you want to give your best friend a sub to AnOther Man. You go shopping for the magazine.
Now you have a choice, so you click on the link ‘Buy as a gift’. You will need your friend’s email address and you have the opportunity to sent a suitable message, and you should tell us when to dispatch the email alert which will open … Keep Reading
The USA’s National Endowment for the Arts has produced a report based on a survey of american reading habits. Respectable blogs, Resource Shelf and Print is Dead included, have been giving its conclusions more weight than the report deserves. The surveys on which the report is based, do not attempt to measure the massive growth in consumer and educational use of the web, and employ a definition of ‘reading’ which seems to presuppose that the only form of reading worth … Keep Reading
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