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More Thoughts on E-Publishing

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on March 9, 2008 - 11:49am.
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Some more thoughts on e-publishing. I'm for it (yes! of course!) but my pet peeve is thinking any new technology will solve problems that it cannot possibly solve. False expectations can actually limit potential. Yes, to e-publishing. No, to over-promising what it can accomplish at this historical moment (who knows what it might be able to accomplish in the future).

Paper or E-Publishing?

Submitted by Cathy Davidson on March 3, 2008 - 3:42pm.
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More thoughts on e-publishing
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I just bought C P Snow's Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959) both as a physical book (I hadn't reread it in ages!) and, for $3.95 or so, as an Amazon On-Line Reader. It didn't always work perfectly, but I like it a lot and will buy this way again.
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Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing media star and critic, offers wise insights into the different ways we read, on screen and off, in this reblog from Locus Magazine, March 2007.