http://www.futureofthebook.com/ preservation and persistence of the changing book en-us Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:31:57 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss UserLand Frontier v9.5 rssUpdates g.frost@mchsi.com (Gary Frost) g.frost@mchsi.com (Gary Frost) ***<i>recession prosperity</i> http://www.toccon.com/toc2009 The third annual <a href="http://www.toccon.com/toc2009">conference</a> on publishing and the social role of transmission. Recession prosperity and resilience is the quirky nature of the book. ***<i>story of stories</i> http://www.utexas.edu/oncampus/2008/12/08/kilgarlin-center/ Saving our stories, Students preserve historic texts to home movies. <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/oncampus/2008/12/08/kilgarlin-center/">(4:34)</a> This is a UT video about the Kilgarlin Center and the Cultural Record. ***<i>phone book</i> It is possible to look at any trend up-side down. FotB has long identified the cell phone as the incubation niche for the hand-held reader, but the issue is not the display technology or even the aspect of legibility. The issue is the physical relation of device possession with the user. Think of the Bible; the user wants to create a bond of possession with the device and a behavior of direct communication and through that act relate to content. Such a strong motivation of personal connection exemplifies the cell phone as well. Think of the towers and the virtual proximity with separated persons. Kindle is a connection with Amazon and in that sense an fulfillment device. The e-book application, in my view, is a decoy. The purpose is to establish a behavior of possession and communication. Same with Google Print which attempts to provide a sense of physical possession of print libraries and knowledge.