Archive for the ‘ Books and Literature ’ Category

Multimedia E-Books, Adorned With Video Extras

Like DVDs, electronic books for the iPad are now being loaded with extras, including video clips that are integrated with text.

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Hong Kong Book Fair Adds a New Element: Electronic Publishing

The largest event of its kind in the Chinese-speaking market is still largely about selling print books, but this year there are booths of more than 20 companies in the “digital reading interactive zone.”

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Essay: Only Disconnect

Out of cellphone range, I wake up from my techno-fugue state and remember who I am and why I write.

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Book Review – Hamlet’s Blackberry – By William Powers

A technology writer ponders the meaning of our obsessive connectivity.

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Op-Ed Columnist: The Medium Is the Medium

The Internet culture has yet to incorporate the literary culture of traditional bookish learning.

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Off the Shelf: In Fred Goodman’s Book, a Record Industry on the Ropes

The author Fred Goodman uses the story of Edgar Bronfman and Warner Music to show the struggles of the major labels.

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Book Review – The Facebook Effect – By David Kirkpatrick

A fascinating history of Facebook, and a thoughtful analysis of the Web site’s impact.

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Small Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market

Google may soon become the primary source of e-books on the Web sites of hundreds of independent booksellers.

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Digital Magazines Don’t Encourage Socializing

New digital magazine applications fall short on social interaction commonplace on the Web, while excelling in design.

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Roll-Up Computers and Their Kin

Flexible computer screens are being developed for the military.Will e-readers eventually be implanted in our retinas? Maybe not, but you might be able to unfurl them on the subway.

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