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Tag Archives: ebooks

New e-book study announced

09-Sep-08

This makes my day. I’m really looking forward to the results of this study, via the Chronicle: Sony wants Penn State students to help it figure out why more readers haven’t taken to e-books. The electronics company has provided the university with 100 e-book readers for a yearlong study of “e-book usage in a higher-ed [...]

Is self-published fiction becoming fail-safe?

18-Aug-08

… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt A few key quotes: The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than [...]