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How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad... 23 years ago

August 30 2011, 10:44am | Comments
Bookmark Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
It’s fitting that at the end of this essay about the proliferation of e-readers, Scott McLemee invokes critic Franco Moretti, who has devoted the past decade to deromanticizing literary criticism and…

January 6 2011, 8:17pm | Comments
Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way
As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book
In the beginning was the Word. Then came Gutenberg, and it was good. But then came a giddy army of Japanese school girls, writing and “publishing" novels on cell phones. And…

June 20 2010, 11:13am | Comments
Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers
Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments
Bookmark 5 Things Old Media Still Doesn’t Get About The Web
Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and…

June 17 2010, 4:06am | Comments
Bookmark The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books
Traditionally, publishers have sold books to stores, with the wholesale price for hardcovers set at fifty per cent of the cover price. Authors are paid royalties at a rate of about…

April 21 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark Publishing: The Revolutionary Future
Though Gutenberg's invention made possible our modern world with all its wonders and woes, no one, much less Gutenberg himself, could have foreseen that his press would have this effect. And…

February 24 2010, 9:51am | Comments

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