Expert insights. Personalized for you.
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 MORE
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. Scroll down to read a description of the contents. You will receive a nicely formatted and edited 75-page book, that is also copy-protection free so you can read it on any device, share it with friends, or print it. 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. Why is it that I think that as Jeff Bezos continues to apologize for Kindles being sold out, that these other companies are looking at this demand and reacting? The iPhone changed the discussion and I think the Kindle is doing the same MORE
Download the free eBook by Brandon Hall Group and Xyleme, “Content Personalization at Scale: Why Content Strategy and Technology are Critical to Success.” To access the free eBook, please fill out the form below. 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
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. One of my favorite walks in the Black Mountains is the ascent of the Cat’s Back followed by transit over Hay Bluff and Twmpa then down the long ridge of Darren Lwyd to Capel-y-Ffin. MORE
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. The Acorn Study began in the autumn of 2019. As often happens, most stories were collected in its early days in the flurry of sharing that followed its release. 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
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. This fall I had the pleasure of being a member of the faculty for a Cynefin retreat on aesthetics and semiotics. 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. We covered a lot of territory in the interview, ranging across topics including why ebooks are rising so rapidly to the impact on booksellers and libraries. One of the topics we discussed is what I think is one of the most fundamentally important aspects of ebooks: how they are democratizing creativity. MORE
Whether a course, or interactive ebook, or whatever, I want to create a flow. I’m working on my next plan for global domination. And as I do, I’ve been developing my thinking, and there are some interesting outcomes. MORE
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. Well before the last press has punched out its last paper book, we will have switched to thinking that p-books are print-outs of e-books. That’s when the switch will have been made, just as occurred when we switched from typewriters to word processors. 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
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. Today's managers are faced with an increasing use of the Web and social platforms by their staff, their customers, and their competitors, but most aren't sure quite what to do about it or how it all relates to them. MORE
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. We are now at the stage where we start to dig into the patterns and ask what they might be telling us. . 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
You could get two of the expired books as ebooks, but now Amazon also has a paperback option. At this calendar inflection, it’s interesting to note how time flies. I was somewhat amazed to find out that my first three books were already out of print! MORE
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. Picking up right where we left things , let’s dive straight into more of the patterns. 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
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. 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
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. Without further ado, let’s pick up where we left off last week! 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. changed the game by providing us with a new direct channel for ILT materials – the eBook. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc. 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). vs. $3.99). We’re not deliberately engaging in price gouging; this is near the minimum price CreateSpace will let us charge. MORE
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. After a couple of weeks of hiatus (early spring is definitely Bank Holiday season here in Cyprus), this blog series returns for its final look back at the Acorn Study. 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. On September 27, 2016, I am releasing an addendum to my latest book, The Purpose Effect called “ The Rise, Fall and Rise of Purpose.” 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? Our country''s economic prosperity, which is totally dependent on having enough qualified knowledge workers. . Check back here for how to order. Thanks for supporting NineShift! 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.
Xyleme
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Download the free eBook by Brandon Hall Group and Xyleme, “Content Personalization at Scale: Why Content Strategy and Technology are Critical to Success.” To access the free eBook, please fill out the form below.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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. changed the game by providing us with a new direct channel for ILT materials – the eBook. Home About Podcasts Videos Xyleme Inc.
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.
Trends in the Living Networks
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. We covered a lot of territory in the interview, ranging across topics including why ebooks are rising so rapidly to the impact on booksellers and libraries. One of the topics we discussed is what I think is one of the most fundamentally important aspects of ebooks: how they are democratizing creativity.
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. Today's managers are faced with an increasing use of the Web and social platforms by their staff, their customers, and their competitors, but most aren't sure quite what to do about it or how it all relates to them.
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'.
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.
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.
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. Why is it that I think that as Jeff Bezos continues to apologize for Kindles being sold out, that these other companies are looking at this demand and reacting? The iPhone changed the discussion and I think the Kindle is doing the same
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. .
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.
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 1, 2021
You could get two of the expired books as ebooks, but now Amazon also has a paperback option. At this calendar inflection, it’s interesting to note how time flies. I was somewhat amazed to find out that my first three books were already out of print!
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 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.
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). vs. $3.99). We’re not deliberately engaging in price gouging; this is near the minimum price CreateSpace will let us charge.
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? Our country''s economic prosperity, which is totally dependent on having enough qualified knowledge workers. . Check back here for how to order. Thanks for supporting NineShift!
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."
Clark Quinn
JULY 21, 2020
Whether a course, or interactive ebook, or whatever, I want to create a flow. I’m working on my next plan for global domination. And as I do, I’ve been developing my thinking, and there are some interesting outcomes.
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.
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.
Dave Snowden
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. We are now at the stage where we start to dig into the patterns and ask what they might be telling us. .
Dave Snowden
APRIL 8, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. After a couple of weeks of hiatus (early spring is definitely Bank Holiday season here in Cyprus), this blog series returns for its final look back at the Acorn Study.
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. On September 27, 2016, I am releasing an addendum to my latest book, The Purpose Effect called “ The Rise, Fall and Rise of Purpose.”
Dave Snowden
MARCH 17, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. Picking up right where we left things , let’s dive straight into more of the patterns.
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 6, 2020
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. One of my favorite walks in the Black Mountains is the ascent of the Cat’s Back followed by transit over Hay Bluff and Twmpa then down the long ridge of Darren Lwyd to Capel-y-Ffin.
Dave Snowden
MARCH 11, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. The Acorn Study began in the autumn of 2019. As often happens, most stories were collected in its early days in the flurry of sharing that followed its release.
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. Well before the last press has punched out its last paper book, we will have switched to thinking that p-books are print-outs of e-books. That’s when the switch will have been made, just as occurred when we switched from typewriters to word processors.
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.
Dave Snowden
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. Without further ado, let’s pick up where we left off last week!
Dave Snowden
MARCH 4, 2021
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page.
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.
Dave Snowden
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Links to eBook and paperback copies of our latest book are also available on this page. This fall I had the pleasure of being a member of the faculty for a Cynefin retreat on aesthetics and semiotics.
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. Scroll down to read a description of the contents. You will receive a nicely formatted and edited 75-page book, that is also copy-protection free so you can read it on any device, share it with friends, or print it.
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.”
116 
Let's personalize your content