paper Wiki: you heard it here first
"Wikipedia, the Print Edition: A major German publisher, Bertelsmann, has announced plans to print a book called "The One-Volume Wikipedia Encyclopedia," which goes on sale this September for 19.95 euros (around $32 U.S.). The book will feature some of the year's most popular articles. Says Dr. Varnhorn, the editor in charge of Bertelsmann's reference works, in a recent NY Times article, "We think of it as an online encyclopedic yearbook." A statement that foreshadows the possibility of this book becoming the first of many annually printed editions."
Being born digital is not important; everything is now born digital. How a conceptual work grows up is what counts.
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comments assume that paper and screen presentations are equivalent or, as they say, fungible. Is the FotB perspective, that they are different and complimentary, too weird? Be there and Be Square.
ten days of silence
if:book has gone silent for ten days. For three years it has had tons of commentary on the future of the book. Meanwhile Teleread is in a frenzy to figure out why mimicry of physical books will just not convey to hand-held reading devices. And only its own title provides the centrifugal at
print is dead.
self-authentication
But another shift is about to occur. This will be a shift in which authentication will again be influential. Touch screen voting, census automation and many other automated tabulations from traffic control to genetic modification will require some self-authentication.
Museums, established to study physical artifacts, have already
encountered this constraint on the limits of digital simulation and
libraries will follow.
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e-book obsolescence
In another step of functional definition for the hand-held reading device, Google has
added Wiki reference to Google Maps. Placed-based learning using cellular connectivity and a phone sized communication device appears to have malapropted Kindle as a print book simulator.
And what I wonder if e-book advocates, intent to dismiss the functionality of the physical book, realize that they also dismiss the functionality of sustained reading. What if the constraints they attribute to the physical book are really instructional efficiencies for the nurture of reading skills? Then screen based reading will become an oxymoron.
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