electronic publishing

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).

More thoughts on e-publishing

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.

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.