There is a tendency among book lovers to shun the growing embrace of digital readers, a feeling that no device can replace that feeling that a printed text produces — that almost sensual sentiment toward paper. In this way many classicists find the holding of the leaves just as important as the interpretation of them. [...]
I was going to skip over this article and just leave it as a re-tweet from my Twitter account, but decided it had to get a mention on the site. Over at PublishingPerspectives there’s a great post by Richard Eoin Nash entitled “Why Publishing Cannot Be Saved (As It Is)” that looks into the economic [...]
Our friends across the Atlantic seem to get slammed with the worst of ideas from their legislators. First there was the Pirate Finder General with his near-unlimited power to hunt down music and film pirates. Now the content industries have found a way to force the consumer to pay collectively for the faults of a [...]