The Power Of Touch
Oh dear. I made a possibly awful awful mistake. I touched something.
We’ve talked before about the choice between Paper and Plastic and the e-volution of the e-book genre. For me personally, I never thought I would end up getting an e-reader. Right now in my day to day life I work with a PC, carry a netbook and have a PC at home. I have a quite reasonable phone that I am sure I could get an e-book onto if I really wanted, assuming that I don’t simply use the various other computers I have access to. There are Kindle and nook [...]
E-volutionary
First and foremost, Happy New Year everyone!
I hope you had a wonderful time and here’s to 2010 and all that lays before us.
It being a New Year, it is of course time to talk about the future and in particular e-books. Yes again, don’t give me that look. Specifically I’d like to talk about the perception of e-books and readers and mention some of the hurdles ahead. Part of this comes from two articles Regis linked me to and part of it is from good old personal experience.
Starting with the articles we have two big ones in the e-lit world, [...]
The Furniture Rule
I read an interesting article in Guardian about authors who pretty much wrote science-fiction, but refused to acknowledge that what they wrote was, in fact, science-fiction. The story might take place in the future, might explore the effects of apocalyptic events… but there are no lasers or robots. Therefore not sci-fi, right? In a way it’s understandable to refuse to be categorized and keep your doors open to a wider audience, but on the other hand it seems crazy to alienate the readership that is most likely to pick your book up. It reminds me a little of when the Sci [...]
Paper or Plastic?
Some of you may be reading this entry on an iPhone or other PDA. Some may have found the few moments at a computer to cast their eye over the site. Alot of the busy world probably does the majority of their reading on a display, as such we have the question.
Paper or Plastic?
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