EBooks, digital books, the future of books: An overview of current publishing experiments and strategy debates
February 26, 2008 by ruediger
Within only a few weeks, I came across all sorts of news refering to big publishing conglomerates and small indiependent houses who launch or announced  new approaches to putting books onto the internet. And at the same time, a new debate about eventual business models has started – anywhere between giving away all the stuff for free […]
About cultural loss through technology – a few 1000 years ago
February 18, 2008 by ruediger
The revolving debate about what culture may lose as books migrate from a shelf onto a screen – or if digitizing books is a good thing, or just plain vil – I was amused to come across this story related by Plato in Phaedrus 275 A: “When the god Thoth first offered the craft of […]
Unwrap a book – digitally
February 11, 2008 by ruediger
Here you can find Paulo Coelho’s new megaseller “The Witch of Portobello” – for free. Oh, and yes, it is entirely legal. Courtesy of Harper Collins, Coelho’s US publisher. Why they give away Coelho’s new book digitally? In order to sell it on paper, of course. And Harper decided, as of today, to start putting […]