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Jan Swafford has a not very credible piece at Slate titled, “Why e-books will never replace real books.” She He says this: So real books and e-books will coexist. That has happened time and again with other new technologies that were prophesied to kill off old ones. Autos didn’t wipe out horses. Movies didn’t finish [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology
The TAC website was hacked to death the night before Apple’s iPad launched, so my initial reactions to the shiny new gadget went out via Twitter rather than this blog. I wasn’t too impressed — like a lot of critics, I concluded it was an oversized iPod Touch, which is already a product in search [...]
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Despite arguing a few months ago that the iPhone could already do most of what I might want a Kindle to do, I’ve lately come around to the virtues of e-readers. More than that, I’ve actually bought a refurbished Kindle. What prompted me to do so was seeing that the 12-volume works of Edmund Burke [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology
This article gets a lot right — the death of newspapers has been exaggerated. They still sell, though sales are falling, and they’re still profitable. The smart ones are becoming more profitable even as sales decline — in other words, they have a product that has been underpriced until now. What’s happening to the newspaper [...]
Filed under: media, Technology
A colleague is trying out the Kindle, which has inevitably made me want one, despite my skepticism. But I’m not sold yet: its browser capabilities have received bad reviews, and the function I would chiefly use an e-book reader for, reading free PDF books, is only available with the $489 Kindle DX. (Yes, I know [...]
Filed under: academia, Books, Technology
No, that’s not like the Craigslist Killer for bluestockings. It’s the iPhone, as Ann Kirschner argues: Kindle, shmindle. It does almost nothing that an iPhone can’t do better — and most important, the iPhone is always with me. Woody Allen had it right: Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Yes, the Kindle’s [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology