reading agenda
“Hint for Obama: Maybe the Obama-ized FCC can at least go on go on record as encouraging phone companies to promote e-books. And no need for just iPhones to be involved. Perhaps Google can encourage the Android handset-sellers and telecom allies to act to couple the phones with literacy.” David Rothman,
Teleread
Great connection! The literacy advocation includes the role of hand-held and head mounted devices. This will also drop into re-skills and up-skills for the younger labor force.
In my view, this is a much more needed agenda than development of the advanced reading applications at other book future discussions. You have opened an authentic incubation niche for the social agenda for screen reading. Keep the momentum.
raw deal
A further
frustration of the exploitation of libraries by Google can be posed as an exploitation of the collections made available by libraries. That includes disregard of the value of contributions of paper makers, book designers, printers and binders still completely unrecognized in all this re-delivery.
Imagine Google running the front desk of the on-line, world library and in walks a provider who simply wants to use the digital content of all the books. Let’s call that service Boggle and what it does is deliver a unique para-book of running text per each query based on world content and user profile. Such a book service would supercede the Google citation scrolls and product eclipse the ever increasing mash-up of content. Then Google can feel abused and exploited.
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“Craft stores, from giant chains like Michaels Stores to small scrapbook supply shops, are reporting that sales are higher compared with the last holiday season, and online marketplaces for handmade goods, like
Etsy, are seeing a boom in listings and transactions.” New York Times, Business, 12.23.08
For example;
Moon Bindery