The first edition of the first issue is rare and valuable. We missed the midsummer frenzy, but several members of my family have already purchased and consumed the final installment.
One of my favourite magazines, Rare Book Review, in its latest issue, reminds me how valuable that first edition would now be if we had not allowed it to be read to destruction:
“Is that a library in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?” Lorcan Dempsey found the connection, reflecting on Peter Kaufman’s startling prediction: by 2020 an iPod sized device will be able to contain all the media content ever created. Kaufman is just extrapolating the familiar Moore’s law trends. iPod style computer disk memory is now 3.6 millionth of the price of 1982 costs. So its not hard to believe that such a small device could contain … Keep Reading
There is a fascinating post from Adrian Hon and lots of good discussion on the revolution facing the book publishing industry (noted via Charkin blog). Adrian is amusingly rude, but spot-on, in his criticisms of the book publishers current web offerings:
… Keep ReadingMost of these sites are so awful that there’s plenty of room for easy improvement, providing that someone else smarter doesn’t step in and capture all the traffic first. Maybe that someone will be Amazon with Shelfari, or
Exact Editions now has a new tool — a Clipper — which allows readers to extract clippings from magazines on the Exact Editions platform and reproduce the exact clipping in a blog.
You can access the Clipper from the tool bar. There is a new icon which comes up in full green when you are on the Full Page view. This is the icon:
Clicking on that icon gives you a view of the page from which you can select … Keep Reading
Its good to lose touch occasionally; I have just had a week of holiday in Elba (a beautiful island and a great holiday). No contact with the web for a week, just a steady flow of emails to view on my Blackberry. So a very good holiday — and as I tune back into the flow of blogs and trends and technology opinions there seems to be plenty of grounds for gloom about newspapers:
Powered by