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For those in New York: I'm going to be interviewing Bob Stein on Thursday as part of The Public School New York. This is part of The Public School's series on The Page + The Screen, which looks inter...
The iPad has arrived, to no one's surprise: as soon as you use an iPhone, you start wondering what a computer-sized version of the same would be like. (Those interested in how past predictions look no...
Good weekend reading: Jonathan Dee's examination of the fall from grace of Charles Johnson's Little Green Footballs. Internecine fighting on the right isn't inherently interesting; however, Dee's piec...
Ted Genoways, the editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, has an essay up at Mother Jones with the alarmist title "The Death of Fiction?": he points out, to the surprise of nobody, I expect, that the...
question posed by John Brockman and answered by predictable (but interesting) members of the digerati. definitely worth browsing. ...
Following are Dan Cohen's prepared remarks for a talk at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting, on January 7, 2010, in San Diego. The panel was entitled "Is Google Good for History?" and ...
the never-ending stream of announcements of tablets and dedicated e-book devices from CES is a clear indicator that e-reading is coming of age. the open publishing lab at RIT is keeping track of all ...
Jace Clayton quotes an article from The Economist: A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much other fiction. By contrast, the audience for an obscure novel is lar...
Mitch Ratcliffe posted this very smart piece yesterday and gave permission to cross-post it on if:book. How to create new reading experiences profitably Concluding my summary of my recent presentati...
Julio Cortázar is one of those writers who is mentioned far more often than actually read; most people know that he wrote Hopscotch, a novel often mentioned as a precursor to hypertext fiction,...
It's the shortest day of the year, New York is under a thick blanket of snow which will soon turn to slush, and it's hard not to feel let down by the world: when the Democrats gut health care reform i...
My colleagues and I are very happy to announce a completely re-vamped version of CommentPress. Available for download at http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/. If you want to see the new ver...
Robert Winter's CD-Companion to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was published twenty years ago this week. As you look at this promo piece it's important to realize that the target machine for this title wa...
Just before Thanksgiving 1984, twenty-five years ago this week, The Criterion Collection was launched with the release of laserdisc editions Citizen Kane and King Kong. In the video below critic ...
An extremely interesting new book by Stanislas Dehaene entitled Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention has just been released. Dehaene, a neuroscientist, is curious about...
A text summary of thise event has been put online as a commentable text using commentpress here One of the most inspiring aspects of the Free Software movement has been its educational ethos: users...more