book as so last century
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Books are so last centuryScott McNulty
Monday, May 24, 2010
Why am I here?
• eReader junkie
• Wrote a book sold only in electronic form
• Former Wharton Computing Employee
• Will present for food
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A Brief eBook Timeline
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Gutenberg Project 1971Monday, May 24, 2010
Rocket eBook/ SoftBook 1998
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Amazon buys Mobipocket 2005
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Sony Reader 2006Monday, May 24, 2010
E-Ink
• Low power
• High contrast
• Reflective
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Kindle 2007Monday, May 24, 2010
Kindle 2007Monday, May 24, 2010
The Oprah Effect 2008Monday, May 24, 2010
Kindle 2 & DX 2009Monday, May 24, 2010
nook 2009Monday, May 24, 2010
More Sony Readers 2009Monday, May 24, 2010
iPad 2010Monday, May 24, 2010
Kobo 2010Monday, May 24, 2010
ePub
Amazon Everyone Else
AZW (based on mobi)
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Format Support
Platform ePub PDF Mobi AMZ Text Doc
Kindle ✗ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔*Sony ✔ ✔ ✗ ✗ ✔ ✔iPad
(iBooks) ✔ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
nook ✔ ✔ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
Kobo ✔ ✔ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗
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ePub
• Uses XHTML, XML, and CSS to create file
• Supports DRM
• Open, standard format
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DRM
Platform Amazon iTunes Adobe DRM
Kindle ✔ ✗ ✗
Sony ✗ ✗ ✔
iPad (iBooks) ✗ ✔ ✗
nook ✗ ✗ ✔
Kobo ✗ ✗ ✔
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Annotation
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Highlights
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Highlights per book
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Cushing Academy Library goes bookless
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Princeton - Administration
http://bit.ly/princekindle
Student participants reduced the amount of paper they used to print course readings by almost 50 percent. However, e-readers must be significantly improved to have the same value in a teaching environment as traditional paper texts, participants said.
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Princeton - Students http://bit.ly/princestudent
“Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages — not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs,” he explained. “All these things have been lost, and if not lost they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features’ have been rendered useless.”
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Darden http://bit.ly/dardenkindle
Darden’s Kindle experiment is not quite over but the verdict is already in: Most Darden students prefer not to use the electronic reading devices in the B-school classroom.
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Find Me
• Twitter: @blankbaby
• Blog: http://blog.blankbaby.com
• Google: Scott McNulty (I’m the one that isn’t a church organist and who doesn’t make nature sound CDs).
• Email: [email protected]
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