Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publishing. Show all posts

Oct 12, 2009

Ebooks vs Printed Books (or no reading at all?)

5 points that ebook gadgets will need to address to be viable alternatives to print.

A blog debate at nytimes about whether our brains like ebooks, has some excellent views across the history of reading, and if humans were meant to read at all.

For instance, Plato disliked reading because it was apparently a 'new' distractive medium. Incidentally, I just bought an audiobook of Plato's Republic (itunes for $1.99). This is great, as the masterpiece is anyway in a dialogue form.