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Jul. 11-15, 2011 | Association for Cultural Studies Summer Institute, University of Ghent, Belgium
Mar. 18, 2011 | American Cultures in the Digital Age Conference, Vanderbilt University
Mar. 25, 2010 | Cooper Lecture Series, Swarthmore College
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Oct. 30, 2009 | Scholarly Communication Committee, Georgetown University
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This is the second installment in a multi-part series reflecting on how the publishing industry might connect better with readers. You can read part I, on The Da Vinci Code, by clicking here. II. What can the publishing industry learn from Oprah? I can hear you groaning already. “Oprah? Really?” Yes, really. “Hasn’t that already [...]
This is the first in a multi-part series called, “what the publishing industry can learn.” Each post will focus on a specific — and specifically instructional — facet of contemporary book culture. The goal is to help those of us invested in books to imagine how the publishing industry might connect better with readers and [...]
Yesterday I ran across this intriguing post on The Guardian Technology Blog, about e-books and book piracy. There, author Bobbie Johnson advances a provocative, and perhaps counter-intuitive, claim. E-books have yet to really take off, he argues, because printed books haven’t been subjected to a level of online piracy sufficient to inculcate a digital disposition [...]
On Monday Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled version 2.0 of its popular e-reading device, Kindle, which the company will release to the public on February 24th. The price is $359. As with most things Amazon, the reaction thus far has been mixed. Some see Kindle 2 as a great leap forward for e-reading (mostly Bezos here), [...]
Over on Publishing Frontier, Joseph J. Esposito offers a provocative reflection on the past, present, and future of Amazon.com in a post entitled, “Decline and Fall.” Despite the profit woes and nagging doubts that beset the online retailer early on, the company appears to be at the top of its game today. It recently beat [...]
I was excited to come across Virginia Heffernan’s recent piece in the New York Times Magazine, “Click and Jane.” In it she explores her young son’s refusal to call an online book a “book.” Here’s a short excerpt: In a hundred ways, we pretend that screen experiences are books — PowerBooks, notebooks, e-books — but [...]
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