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My second ebook, finding perpetual beta , is now available. The ebook is available for $24. This ebook contains a series of reflections on the themes originally presented in seeking perpetual beta , published in April, 2014. MORE
I’m also debating various ebook readers to cut down on paper. I have been wanting an iPad for my graphic recording work but I just haven’t given in. (I’m I have a book habit.) But I keep getting uncomfortable. George Siemens sums it up for me. However, for those committed to openness, the iPad forces a clash between technolust and ideology. MORE
In compiling my ebook, Seeking perpetual beta: a guidebook for the network era , I tried to cover all the posts that resonated with readers, clients, and colleagues over a decade. MORE
The first deliverable will be an inexpensive book, probably both an ebook (cheap and easy to distribute) and a paperback (works better for checklists and highlighting). I’m writing a book on learning for oneself, without training. MORE
Love it or hate it - the Kindle is acting a bit like a bow wave on the e-book front. This post from Crave lays out some of the specs of a new. reader from Netronix. MORE
But Overdrive is lending lots of ebooks. Amazon has 65% of the ebook market, “a scary number,” Dan says. In the Pew survey a couple of weeks ago, 35% said that libraries ought to spend more on ebooks even at the expense of physical books. If you look at the ebook market, there’s more reading go on at places like the DPLA. (He Many of the ebooks are being provided straight to a platform (mainly Amazon) by the authors. MORE
Erik Brynjolfsson and I just published our ebook Race Against the Machine : How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. I’ve not been blogging here as heavily lately. MORE
The folks at the Wall Street Journal very nicely asked me to write a cover story for their Journal Report on technology, which is on the stands today. The piece is here online, but if you get a chance, check in out in print (ironic, I know.) They dedicated the whole front page of the section to the story, which is really cool to see. It's also teased above the masthead on the front page.) There are about a dozen different predictions running through the piece, some of the positive, some negative. MORE
Because, frankly, the ebook formats are still too limited. We can now embed the digital media within ebooks. Why ebooks, not on the web? However, we can’t quite do what I want with ebooks. The ebook standards don’t yet support it, though they could. Wrapping a dialog capability around the ebook, which is another interesting opportunity, only adds to the learning opportunity. MORE
In my interview with Cory Doctorow , I wondered, in the midst of an overly-elaborate three-part question, whether ebooks will provide enough of what we value about physical books (pbooks) that pbooks will lose the historic significance Cory had pointed to. Nevertheless, if the future is something like that, then what of pbooks’ value will be left unreplaced by ebooks? The biggest open question, I believe, is whether it will be as easy to annotate ebooks… Annotatability. MORE
A new report from Pew Internet says that most Americans don’t know that they can borrow e-books from their local public libraries, while 12% of e-book readers (16 years and older) have borrowed an e-book from their local public library. More than 75% of local public libraries in the US do lend out e-books.). Those who do borrow e-books think the selection is quite good: 16% excellent, 18% very good, and 32% good. MORE
Imagine a hardware platform that blended something like the LifeScribe's SmartPen and an eBook reader - the device both displays the textbook and records the audio of the lecture and links that audio to the relevant text or vice versa. ( BetaNews link ). So according to this article , "32.7% of a textbook's cost comes from paper." MORE
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Audiko - Create Free Ringtones - even for the iPhone | Main | Map of the Blogosphere » March 27, 2008 The Kindle - Prepping the Ground for eBook advances Love it or hate it - the Kindle is acting a bit like a bow wave on the e-book front. MORE
So I guess the Guardian (UK) went out and asked some authors how they felt about eBooks. Finally, one is actually " horrified by the idea of ebooks" and that she loves the "feel and production of books, and I covet them as possessions.". One author laments not being able to spy out what people are reading on the train. MORE
Tags: Experience Design iPad apple ebook inkling reading MORE
If you're interested in the future of text, social reading, ebooks, and serendipitous discovery, this is a great project to get involved with, working in a dynamic and fun office with the rest of the Betaworks crew in Manhattan. MORE
AKMA points to an excellent post by Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica about the fragmentation of ebook standards. Jacqui points to the major hurdle: Ebook makers like owning their own format so they can “vertically integrate,&# i.e., lock users into their own bookstores. AKMA would love to see a publisher offer an easy way of “pouring&# text into an open format that creates a useful, beautiful digital book. MORE
Last Friday I was interviewed on ABC’s News Exchange program about ebooks and their impact. The ebook segment is around 13:30 – 17:15. Over 170 authors have sold over 50,000 copies of their ebooks. Ebooks are a model for creative democratization. MORE
hardcover and ebook versions). Are you looking for a little insight into the 90,000 word version of my new book Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization ? Perhaps a ‘ try before you buy’ approach? Fair enough. Let me do my best and help you out in 559 words. MORE
ebook. After 10 years of blogging here, I have compiled my best posts into an ebook. This ebook is the result of a decade of seeking, sense-making, and sharing knowledge on the Web. The ebook can be purchased for $25 (13% HST incl for Canadian purchasers). MORE
BJ Schone has published a nice little eBook and has an associated blog that provides some interactions that can be used in eLearning that will make the learning more fun and engaging. MORE
It’s an ebook available for sale at Amazon (other ebook formats coming soon). Erik Brynjolfsson and I have just published our new book Race Against the Machine : How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. It got covered by a New York Times story by Steve Lohr on Monday, and is being excerpted in three parts by The Atlantic this week. MORE
Thanks to the guys at Wiley the eBook edition of my book "Organizations don't tweet, people do" is available for purchase on Amazon and iTunes. From the blurb: Practical advice for managers on how the Web and social media can help them to do their jobs better. MORE
Responding to Richard Nantel : Just to respond to the comments, I think there is a very big difference between eBooks and books that are online. What we are seeing online is not an increase in the popularity of eBooks per se. Most books that are online are plain text (as in the Gutenberg collection) or RTF (as are most of the Burgomeister books). These are, of course, free and open access books (whether legal or not). What these types of books manifestly don't need is a 'reader'. MORE
Last week Julie and I premiered our new eBook, "Smart Boys, Bad Grades," at the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York City. You can get the new eBook in one of two ways on our new web site ParentsofBoys.org You can purchase it for $4.95 OR you can join our citizens group Parents of Boys (no cost to join) and get the eBook FREE. Thanks to provost Peter Barna for graciously hosting the event. . MORE
So, here’s a proposal for the Kindle, the Nook, and for any other DRM-ed ebook reader: Allow us to embed one and only one photo into our copy of an ebook. I went to see To Be Takei last night, and George himself was there for an interview afterwards. It occurred to me that I’d like him to autograph his book Oh Myyy , but I only have a copy on my Kindle. MORE
Found via Nancy White - Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design from the Tactical Technology Collective - a free, beautiful overview book around visual information design MORE
Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon. Second, the vertical integration of this market — the dominate sellers of ebook hardware are also the dominant sellers of ebooks — imposes a similar cultural obligation. MORE
For those of you who have been waiting for the eBook version of my Social Learning Handbook, you will be pleased to note that it is now available. This book is intended for Workplace Learning Professionals and in Part 1 considers the emergence of social media, its impact on workplace learning, the range of [.]. Books Facebook Twitter MORE
For the near term (< 1 year), he identified the two major technologies as ebooks and mobile devices (with a shoutout for my book : very kind). This evening I had the delight to hear Alan Levine present the New Media Consortium’s New Horizon Report for 2011 to the ASTD Mt. MORE
In fact, In Lever’s new ebook 101+ Recruiting Hacks to Accelerate Your Hiring in 2018 , Pat Morey, Talent Specialist at LevelUp, suggests the key recruiting KPIs you should be looking at are pipeline speed and offer acceptance. MORE
iPad mobile learning cloud learning eBooks elearning tablet textbooks XylemeI know it’s a bold statement but just for a minute here, humor me and think about a world without physical textbooks, where teachers assign, distribute, receive assignments and grade on a tablet computer. Where students can receive and complete assignments, and follow their grades on their tablet. MORE
In his 2010 ebook The Great Stagnation Cowen argued that it’s not. In our 2011 ebook Race Against the Machine we argue that it is — that technological innovation is going great guns at present — and that our labor force woes are due primarily to tech progress, not stagnation. I’m headed today to Techonomy , which bills itself as “not a tech conference. It’s a conference about how tech is changing everything else.” MORE
Anyone can learn to have lucid dreams, and this ebook tells you how. The ebook is written as a sort of travel guide, telling you what you need to take on your journey and what to expect when you start to lucid dream. “Control your dreams” is my second self-published ebook. Lucid dreams are those dreams where you become aware you are dreaming, and can even begin to control the reality of the dream. Adventure, problem-solving and consequence-free indulgence await! MORE
I’ve written an ebook called ‘Explore your blind spot’ It’s about, er, exploring your blind spot! In the ebook I talk about how it provides a great example of the way consciousness is constructed despite ‘missing’ information. Like the ebook subtitle says, the blind spot gives us an insight into the mind hides its own tracks. The ebook is available in all major formats here and is creative commons licensed. MORE
Amazon would make the transition so much easier if their ebooks were only a few pounds each but every time I have toyed with buying an ebook it is only slightly cheaper than the paper version. Buy a paper version - get the ebook free" would be cool. I'd even pay a few pounds extra to get the ebook thrown in. It may be articles like this: 5 Ways That eBooks Are Better Than Paper Books. MORE
Home > Single Source , Standards > iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning March 25th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment I was on Nigel Paine’s blog on Friday when I saw and commented on his post The Mash-up Begins. MORE
It’s more expensive than the ebook ($14.99 It’s an ideal complement to the ebook, and it also stands on its own. Just a quick note that our book Race Against the Machine is now available in paperback from Amazon and CreateSpace (a print-on-demand company). MORE
Of more concern are the materials used to create ebooks, and in particular, the minerals and the energy. And while some of these materials are "exotic metals from oppressed and war-torn countries" the problem here is not the ebook readers themselves but rather the conditions under which we extract the materials. In fact, very little of the electricity used to produce ebook readers comes from fossil fuel sources. Finally, let's consider the economics of ebook readers. "An MORE
You can order it as an eBook via the regular channels including Amazon , Chapters-Indigo , Barnes & Noble , and Kobo. The Rise, Fall and Rise of Purpose by Dan Pontefract. Not everything can fit into a book. MORE
The eBook costs only $4.99. We predicted the 21st Century. Now we Solve America''s #1 Problem. . Our new book comes out in the next two months. We have 8 speaking engagements lined up already. . And the book solves America''s #1 Economic and Social Problem. What''s that you ask? MORE
eBook Related Topics Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Because, frankly, the ebook formats are still too limited. We can now embed the digital media within ebooks. Why ebooks, not on the web? However, we can’t quite do what I want with ebooks. The ebook standards don’t yet support it, though they could. Wrapping a dialog capability around the ebook, which is another interesting opportunity, only adds to the learning opportunity.
Ross Dawson
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Last Friday I was interviewed on ABC’s News Exchange program about ebooks and their impact. The ebook segment is around 13:30 – 17:15. Over 170 authors have sold over 50,000 copies of their ebooks. Ebooks are a model for creative democratization.
Xyleme
MARCH 25, 2010
Home > Single Source , Standards > iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning iPad & eBooks: A Game Changer for Blended Learning March 25th, 2010 Goto comments Leave a comment I was on Nigel Paine’s blog on Friday when I saw and commented on his post The Mash-up Begins.
Mind Hacks
DECEMBER 30, 2011
Anyone can learn to have lucid dreams, and this ebook tells you how. The ebook is written as a sort of travel guide, telling you what you need to take on your journey and what to expect when you start to lucid dream. “Control your dreams” is my second self-published ebook. Lucid dreams are those dreams where you become aware you are dreaming, and can even begin to control the reality of the dream. Adventure, problem-solving and consequence-free indulgence await!
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
You can download a free PDF of a new anthology about egovernment, called State of the eUnion, edited by John Gotze. I haven’t read it, but there are some excellent contributors. Disclosure: I’m one of the not-so-excellent contributors
Steven Berlin Johnson
APRIL 20, 2009
The folks at the Wall Street Journal very nicely asked me to write a cover story for their Journal Report on technology, which is on the stands today. The piece is here online, but if you get a chance, check in out in print (ironic, I know.) They dedicated the whole front page of the section to the story, which is really cool to see. It's also teased above the masthead on the front page.) There are about a dozen different predictions running through the piece, some of the positive, some negative.
Mind Hacks
DECEMBER 12, 2011
I’ve written an ebook called ‘Explore your blind spot’ It’s about, er, exploring your blind spot! In the ebook I talk about how it provides a great example of the way consciousness is constructed despite ‘missing’ information. Like the ebook subtitle says, the blind spot gives us an insight into the mind hides its own tracks. The ebook is available in all major formats here and is creative commons licensed.
Euen Semple
DECEMBER 19, 2011
Thanks to the guys at Wiley the eBook edition of my book "Organizations don't tweet, people do" is available for purchase on Amazon and iTunes. From the blurb: Practical advice for managers on how the Web and social media can help them to do their jobs better.
Tony Karrer
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
Found via Nancy White - Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design from the Tactical Technology Collective - a free, beautiful overview book around visual information design
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JUNE 27, 2007
Responding to Richard Nantel : Just to respond to the comments, I think there is a very big difference between eBooks and books that are online. What we are seeing online is not an increase in the popularity of eBooks per se. Most books that are online are plain text (as in the Gutenberg collection) or RTF (as are most of the Burgomeister books). These are, of course, free and open access books (whether legal or not). What these types of books manifestly don't need is a 'reader'.
Tony Karrer
SEPTEMBER 7, 2007
BJ Schone has published a nice little eBook and has an associated blog that provides some interactions that can be used in eLearning that will make the learning more fun and engaging.
David Weinberger
JUNE 22, 2012
A new report from Pew Internet says that most Americans don’t know that they can borrow e-books from their local public libraries, while 12% of e-book readers (16 years and older) have borrowed an e-book from their local public library. More than 75% of local public libraries in the US do lend out e-books.). Those who do borrow e-books think the selection is quite good: 16% excellent, 18% very good, and 32% good.
Xyleme
JANUARY 31, 2012
iPad mobile learning cloud learning eBooks elearning tablet textbooks XylemeI know it’s a bold statement but just for a minute here, humor me and think about a world without physical textbooks, where teachers assign, distribute, receive assignments and grade on a tablet computer. Where students can receive and complete assignments, and follow their grades on their tablet.
Adaptive Path
SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Tags: Experience Design iPad apple ebook inkling reading
Mark Oehlert
JULY 28, 2008
So I guess the Guardian (UK) went out and asked some authors how they felt about eBooks. Finally, one is actually " horrified by the idea of ebooks" and that she loves the "feel and production of books, and I covet them as possessions.". One author laments not being able to spy out what people are reading on the train.
Mark Oehlert
MARCH 27, 2008
Love it or hate it - the Kindle is acting a bit like a bow wave on the e-book front. This post from Crave lays out some of the specs of a new. reader from Netronix.
Mark Oehlert
MARCH 27, 2008
e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Audiko - Create Free Ringtones - even for the iPhone | Main | Map of the Blogosphere » March 27, 2008 The Kindle - Prepping the Ground for eBook advances Love it or hate it - the Kindle is acting a bit like a bow wave on the e-book front.
Nine Shift
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
Last week Julie and I premiered our new eBook, "Smart Boys, Bad Grades," at the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York City. You can get the new eBook in one of two ways on our new web site ParentsofBoys.org You can purchase it for $4.95 OR you can join our citizens group Parents of Boys (no cost to join) and get the eBook FREE. Thanks to provost Peter Barna for graciously hosting the event. .
Andy McAfee
JANUARY 25, 2012
It’s more expensive than the ebook ($14.99 It’s an ideal complement to the ebook, and it also stands on its own. Just a quick note that our book Race Against the Machine is now available in paperback from Amazon and CreateSpace (a print-on-demand company).
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 21, 2009
In my interview with Cory Doctorow , I wondered, in the midst of an overly-elaborate three-part question, whether ebooks will provide enough of what we value about physical books (pbooks) that pbooks will lose the historic significance Cory had pointed to. Nevertheless, if the future is something like that, then what of pbooks’ value will be left unreplaced by ebooks? The biggest open question, I believe, is whether it will be as easy to annotate ebooks… Annotatability.
Jane Hart
MARCH 3, 2011
For those of you who have been waiting for the eBook version of my Social Learning Handbook, you will be pleased to note that it is now available. This book is intended for Workplace Learning Professionals and in Part 1 considers the emergence of social media, its impact on workplace learning, the range of [.]. Books Facebook Twitter
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
So, here’s a proposal for the Kindle, the Nook, and for any other DRM-ed ebook reader: Allow us to embed one and only one photo into our copy of an ebook. I went to see To Be Takei last night, and George himself was there for an interview afterwards. It occurred to me that I’d like him to autograph his book Oh Myyy , but I only have a copy on my Kindle.
Nine Shift
JANUARY 26, 2015
The eBook costs only $4.99. We predicted the 21st Century. Now we Solve America''s #1 Problem. . Our new book comes out in the next two months. We have 8 speaking engagements lined up already. . And the book solves America''s #1 Economic and Social Problem. What''s that you ask?
David Weinberger
FEBRUARY 29, 2012
Apple, apparently, won’t carry an ebook that contains a link to buy a hardcover book from Amazon. Second, the vertical integration of this market — the dominate sellers of ebook hardware are also the dominant sellers of ebooks — imposes a similar cultural obligation.
Mark Oehlert
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
Imagine a hardware platform that blended something like the LifeScribe's SmartPen and an eBook reader - the device both displays the textbook and records the audio of the lecture and links that audio to the relevant text or vice versa. ( BetaNews link ). So according to this article , "32.7% of a textbook's cost comes from paper."
Dan Pontefract
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
You can order it as an eBook via the regular channels including Amazon , Chapters-Indigo , Barnes & Noble , and Kobo. The Rise, Fall and Rise of Purpose by Dan Pontefract. Not everything can fit into a book.
David Gurteen
AUGUST 19, 2010
Amazon would make the transition so much easier if their ebooks were only a few pounds each but every time I have toyed with buying an ebook it is only slightly cheaper than the paper version. Buy a paper version - get the ebook free" would be cool. I'd even pay a few pounds extra to get the ebook thrown in. It may be articles like this: 5 Ways That eBooks Are Better Than Paper Books.
David Weinberger
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
As Publishers Weekly puts it, in June ebooks jumped while print plunged: $80.2MM e-books. 84.9MM hardcover. 48.4MM trade paperback. 47.4MM mass-market paperback. Adult paperbacks were down 64% in that month. Discussion at Reddit.
Andy McAfee
NOVEMBER 13, 2011
In his 2010 ebook The Great Stagnation Cowen argued that it’s not. In our 2011 ebook Race Against the Machine we argue that it is — that technological innovation is going great guns at present — and that our labor force woes are due primarily to tech progress, not stagnation. I’m headed today to Techonomy , which bills itself as “not a tech conference. It’s a conference about how tech is changing everything else.”
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 15, 2014
My second ebook, finding perpetual beta , is now available. The ebook is available for $24. This ebook contains a series of reflections on the themes originally presented in seeking perpetual beta , published in April, 2014.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 14, 2014
ebook. After 10 years of blogging here, I have compiled my best posts into an ebook. This ebook is the result of a decade of seeking, sense-making, and sharing knowledge on the Web. The ebook can be purchased for $25 (13% HST incl for Canadian purchasers).
Steven Berlin Johnson
AUGUST 11, 2011
If you're interested in the future of text, social reading, ebooks, and serendipitous discovery, this is a great project to get involved with, working in a dynamic and fun office with the rest of the Betaworks crew in Manhattan.
Jay Cross
APRIL 24, 2015
The first deliverable will be an inexpensive book, probably both an ebook (cheap and easy to distribute) and a paperback (works better for checklists and highlighting). I’m writing a book on learning for oneself, without training.
Harold Jarche
APRIL 16, 2014
In compiling my ebook, Seeking perpetual beta: a guidebook for the network era , I tried to cover all the posts that resonated with readers, clients, and colleagues over a decade.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 7, 2015
But Overdrive is lending lots of ebooks. Amazon has 65% of the ebook market, “a scary number,” Dan says. In the Pew survey a couple of weeks ago, 35% said that libraries ought to spend more on ebooks even at the expense of physical books. If you look at the ebook market, there’s more reading go on at places like the DPLA. (He Many of the ebooks are being provided straight to a platform (mainly Amazon) by the authors.
Andy McAfee
OCTOBER 25, 2011
It’s an ebook available for sale at Amazon (other ebook formats coming soon). Erik Brynjolfsson and I have just published our new book Race Against the Machine : How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. It got covered by a New York Times story by Steve Lohr on Monday, and is being excerpted in three parts by The Atlantic this week.
Nancy White
JUNE 25, 2010
I’m also debating various ebook readers to cut down on paper. I have been wanting an iPad for my graphic recording work but I just haven’t given in. (I’m I have a book habit.) But I keep getting uncomfortable. George Siemens sums it up for me. However, for those committed to openness, the iPad forces a clash between technolust and ideology.
Andy McAfee
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Erik Brynjolfsson and I just published our ebook Race Against the Machine : How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy. I’ve not been blogging here as heavily lately.
David Weinberger
JUNE 5, 2010
AKMA points to an excellent post by Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica about the fragmentation of ebook standards. Jacqui points to the major hurdle: Ebook makers like owning their own format so they can “vertically integrate,&# i.e., lock users into their own bookstores. AKMA would love to see a publisher offer an easy way of “pouring&# text into an open format that creates a useful, beautiful digital book.
Clark Quinn
APRIL 20, 2011
For the near term (< 1 year), he identified the two major technologies as ebooks and mobile devices (with a shoutout for my book : very kind). This evening I had the delight to hear Alan Levine present the New Media Consortium’s New Horizon Report for 2011 to the ASTD Mt.
Jane Hart
DECEMBER 18, 2017
In fact, In Lever’s new ebook 101+ Recruiting Hacks to Accelerate Your Hiring in 2018 , Pat Morey, Talent Specialist at LevelUp, suggests the key recruiting KPIs you should be looking at are pipeline speed and offer acceptance.
Dan Pontefract
APRIL 8, 2013
hardcover and ebook versions). Are you looking for a little insight into the 90,000 word version of my new book Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization ? Perhaps a ‘ try before you buy’ approach? Fair enough. Let me do my best and help you out in 559 words.
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