Archive for the “Book Futurism” category
Making Ebooks is as Easy as Blogging: My Instapaper(book) on Paul Muldoon
by budparr on November 11, 2010
In the not-distant future, the idea of a book or magazine will be much more fluid than it is today, partly because they are easier to produce than in the past, and partly because we will come to expect them (…)
Can We Trust (Poetry) Ebooks? – The Case of Allen Ginsberg’s Collected Poems
by budparr on October 5, 2010
As much as I love e-books, I wish publishers put more thought and effort into the design issues specific to them. From what I understand, most e-books published today come out of the same process as the print edition (something (…)
Will Magazine iPad Apps Go the Way of the 8-track?
by budparr on September 30, 2010
Love the new New Yorker iPad app. If I could have it as a subscription like I have for the print version (which I think I pay $25/yr for), I would certainly buy it, knowing that I’d never have to (…)
How Good Design Can Lead us to Freedom: On iPad Apps vs the Web, and Free
by budparr on June 1, 2010
A lot of smart people are commenting about newspaper and magazine iPad apps as though the apps’ features are set in stone. There’s no reason for there not to be links within an app, for instance, and there’s no reason (…)
Do Tools Matter? On Collaborative Writing
by budparr on May 17, 2010
Matt Bell is a terrific writer and an exemplar of ‘born digital.’ If you follow writing circles online you will find Matt. That’s one reason -two, actually – I’m watching his online writing exercise this week at “Everday Genius,” the (…)
What Web Media Can Learn from Print
by budparr on May 13, 2010
With the death throes of Newsweek there are a lot of Web publishers wallowing in schadenfreude as the scales are tipping in their direction. What Newsweek has shown is that there’s more to being successful on the Web than being there (…)
Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading at The PEN World Voices Festival
by budparr on May 11, 2010
PEN World Voices Festival“Blogs, Twitter, the Kindle: The Future of Reading” was the panel I went to at PEN World Voices Festival (video) that – If you happened to have followed my twitter stream during the event you know - (…)
My sentiments exactly: Max Magee on Book Reviews
by budparr on May 10, 2010
This is the sort of thing the Web does well. Max is a great editor who created his own site and quietly shakes things up by not just going along with the traditional idea of the book review. Instead of (…)
When Google Dominates the Way We (Find, Buy) Read E-books
by budparr on May 4, 2010
This morning Google announced – re-announced – that they will launch their foray into e-book selling as soon as this summer. Chris Palma, Google’s head of Strategic Partner Development, spoke this morning at the offices of Random House as part of (…)
It’s the End of Free As We Thought We Knew It
by budparr on April 16, 2010
When I worked on Wall Street the common wisdom was “fade the press” meaning that when Time and Newsweek, etc all led with stories of doom for the economy then it was time buy. This was an old and well (…)