"Unglue.it, the crowdfunding platform designed to encourage authors and publishers to make their ebooks available under a Creative Commonslicense, was officially launched on May 17..." 
Maurice Sendak, the US author of the best-selling children's book Where the Wild Things Are, dies aged 83. 
Flavorwire: Cultural news and critique from Flavorpill... 
A great way to contribute to libraries and classrooms in need! 
A new way to find teen books. 
A new crop of digital books comes loaded with videos, songs, animated shorts and pop-up graphics. Is this the future of publishing?
------- I'm really excited to see where the advent of ereaders may take books.
Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
Theodor Geisel's first book for kids was rejected 27 times before it was finally published in 1937. And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street was inspired by a very ordinary street in Geisel's Massachusetts hometown. 
I've been a devoted, even fanatical reader of fiction my whole life, but sometimes I feel like I'm wasting time if I spend an evening immersed in Lee Child's newest thriller, or re-reading The Great Gatsby. 
Quote: "The innovative project is an attempt to come up with a working business model that would create widespread, unencumbered access to ebooks, and bridge the differences between rights holders and readers (including library patrons)." 
When books get turned into movies, there’s usually little added to the original story. But with interactive apps, the narrative doesn’t have to be dumbed down or retold. Instead it can be explored from a different angle to expand the audience’s understanding of a fictional world. Via The Digital Rocking Chair 
A new Kindle user's interesting and detailed response to ereading. |
When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests.
'Between Shades of Gray' – probably not the book you're thinking of
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought there would be confusion when I picked up 'Between Shades of Gray' (which was the book I meant to pick up).
Young adult author Ruta Sepetys says her novel 'Between Shades of Gray,' about a Lithuanian girl sent to one of Stalin's work camps, is frequently being mixed up with E L James' erotic trilogy. 
Science fiction's job is to give us a map of where we're headed. From Jules Verne to William Gibson, sci-fi authors describe their visions of the future, and how people might live in it. We ask Intel's futurist for his list of favorite sci-fi books. 
A travesty in education. 
Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen came out heavily against ebooks, but, really, who cares? Recommendations and information for anyone interested in reading Manga. 
I find myself troubled by the folks who seem to treat books as a kind of idol. It is almost always associated with a notion that books are natural and an iPad is un-natural. __________
A very level headed take on ebooks and ereaders. While acknowledging that some (or many) still enjoy physical books (who doesn't love the smell of an old book) the author also points out there is nothing wrong with ebooks; ebooks can still provide readers with the same excellent content. And let's be honest, digital does not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon. Via GoogleLitTrips Reading List 
Information on ebooks in libraries 
One of the most important technological advances in the past thousand years was Gutenberg's printing press. Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
Yes, you CAN buy e-books and support your local indie bookstore... 
Quote: "Digital media is fundamentally different from a piece of media bound by a physical or mechanical container. The reason that digital rights management, the Harper-Collins 26 checkouts solution, or the Stop Online Piracy Act exist is because we insist on trying to find ways to make digital media fit within the same constraints we’ve become accustomed to for mechanical-era media." Via nickcarman |
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