tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16745091.post1747536330039968963..comments2023-05-11T13:09:49.760-04:00Comments on Differences & Repetitions: Ebooks: The future (???) of readingTed Striphashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09277064012517739981noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16745091.post-66682646260733004462008-03-06T17:20:00.000-05:002008-03-06T17:20:00.000-05:00...thanks, Peter, for the compliment. I'd be happy......thanks, Peter, for the compliment. I'd be happy to share my essay on ebooks, if you'd like. Feel free to email me for a copy: striphas@indiana.edu.Ted Striphashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09277064012517739981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16745091.post-82189604379117893392008-03-05T21:28:00.000-05:002008-03-05T21:28:00.000-05:00Hi Ted i found really interesting your text. Im do...Hi Ted i found really interesting your text. Im doing a ebook project and im focusing on future trends about ebooks...will libraries disappear that kind of things could you tell me a nice article that talks about it..<BR/>Thanks<BR/>Peter F.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16745091.post-29181793684526934962007-11-29T14:45:00.000-05:002007-11-29T14:45:00.000-05:00Hi Brett,Thanks very much for your comment. I agre...Hi Brett,<BR/><BR/>Thanks very much for your comment. I agree that there's no one reason why stand-alone ebook devices have yet to take off, and I will say that the OLPC you mention sounds like quite an intriguing development indeed.<BR/><BR/>Part of what's at stake here is, I suppose, a number of competing factors. Among them is the ideology of the printed book, which suggests paper and ink convey a greater sense of "presence" than electronic impulses ever can. I disagree with that idea, for reasons I talk about at length in my forthcoming book. But in any case, it seems to me that if stand-alone ebooks are ever going to take hold, somebody will need to undertake a great deal of counter-ideological to try to convince potential ebook adopters that digital bits are just as capable as printed books of conveying what Walter Ong once called "the presence of the word."<BR/><BR/>But even then, it's all still just smoke and mirrors....Ted Striphashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09277064012517739981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16745091.post-82002369774125845512007-11-27T11:18:00.000-05:002007-11-27T11:18:00.000-05:00I suppose what's interesting to me in all this is ...I suppose what's interesting to me in all this is to wonder why there have been, as you indicate, a succession of ebook rumblings every few years or so. Why is that? <BR/><BR/>Is it simply book publishers hoping to cash in on the digital revolution? That seems a little pat, given how often they have tried and essentially failed to produce a product folks are interested in buying.<BR/><BR/>Is it that they collectively feel they've been close with previous efforts but just haven't gotten the combination of features right for US consumers? From what little research I've personally done into ebooks, it seems they're all pretty much similar in this regard.<BR/><BR/>And then there's the fact that the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) computer has what I consider to be an awesome feature that allows it to transform from ebook to laptop. If this program takes off, there will be millions of ebooks around the globe. What made them decide to make that a prominent feature, especially with their apparent ideological commitment to spreading a certain kind of digital awareness to third world countries?<BR/><BR/>Personally, if it were easy to convert all my books to digital files I could read and annotate on a portable reader, I'd do it. But I'm still waiting for that.Brett Boessenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05899377281496322076noreply@blogger.com