Rob Jacklin on 2009-09-11
Love the distinction made between publishing and reading! Well put!
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look at how others have tagged and highlighted: what does this say about the way the public views the future of print and reading?
We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading.
Rob Jacklin on 2009-09-11
Love the distinction made between publishing and reading! Well put!
matt morain on 2009-10-12
Well put indeed.
Rob Jacklin on 2009-09-11
This the REAL digital revolution.
Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, pa
Key sentence (influenced by IF Book):
"We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading."
I'm not suggesting that books need always be social. One of the chief pleasures of a book is mental solitude, that deep, quiet focus on an author's thoughts—and your own. That's not going away. But books have been held hostage offline for far too long. Ta
"We need to stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading."
Future of reading
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. Publishers and author advocates have generally refused to put books online for fear the content will be Napsterized. And you can understand their terror, because the publishing industry is in big financial trouble, rife with layoffs and restructurings. Literary pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe?
Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, passing them along. The only reason the same thing doesn't happen to books is that they're locked into ink on paper.
Digital books creating communities of readers & learners!
Marcus Goodyear on 2009-06-05
I'm leaving this comment with Diigo and looking at other comments other Diigo users have already posted. This idea of "professional readers" is already here. It just hasn't been standardized or widely adopted yet.
Release them, and you release the crowd
susan carter morgan on 2009-06-03
And build a community of learners..
"Stop thinking about the future of publishing and think instead about the future of reading"
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. Publishers and author advocates have generally refused to put books online for fear the content will be Napsterized. And you can underst
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. Publishers and author advocates have generally refused to put books online for fear the content will be Napsterized.
Bjørn Helge Græsli on 2009-05-28
This, of course, is an essential point if it turns out to be true also if more books were made available digitally.

Karen Mitchell on 2009-05-28
I really like this editorial, especially this statement.
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