Archive for the ‘Marginalia’ Category
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Marginalia -- writing notes in the margins of books -- is not an exact fit for digital books. But the concept has been getting bantered about in a metaphorical sense to denote any kind of user annotation in digital texts. In my June article on Cathy Marshall's studies of user ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Clive Thompson, in his recent comments on how crowdsourcing has the potential to transform eBooks, refers to a a rudimentary form of crowdsourcing that's already being studied in print textbooks. The work he's referring to is by Cathy Marshall, who finds that used-book-buyers place value in the annotations (highlighting and ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
A few excerpts from Clive Thompson's interesting thoughts on digitization last week:
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. ... Literary pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe? ... To which I reply: ...
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