Another overview. By Michael Agresta

vikingpenguinbooks:

Far from killing off the physical page, the rise of ebooks has enhanced our understanding of the written word and the people around it, says Gaby Wood

… things are settling to a point where the physical and the digital have a much more co-operative relationship. For instance, it’s a commonplace that people no longer print their family snaps because everything is taken on digital cameras; but now the ease of digital publishing means that, if you choose to, you can design and order up a much more sophisticated photograph album than you ever could before. Equally, digitisation is encouraging the growth of small magazines, fostering a new burst of creativity, and traditional publishers can print on demand. 

via The Telegraph

(via ebookporn)

interimshow:

Rahel Zoller
‘The Book encounters the E-Book // An aesthetic form with reflected content.’
 
 
“Mirroring each other in the same size and color, two books lay next to each other, an analogue book and an e-book. Both objects create, in the hands of the user, two completely different sensations. Plastic, E ink and control buttons faces canvas, ink and paper. 
 
Both objects contain an inner monologue of their external form. In one, an English translation of Umberto Eco’s short story ”The Inner Monologue of an E-Book” and in the other, an homage to it, “The Inner Monologue of a Book” by Rahel Zoller.
 
These short stories are the reflections of two self-understanding books, both looking back at the great triumphs of bound paper and text over the centuries and questioning the survival of the book in contemporary society.”

(via bookuse)

While Printeresting strives to document and appreciate “slow media,” specifically print, things fitting that description continue to increase in number and even the website itself as a mode of communication may count among them (and we had only just gotten used to the idea that the magazine is a thing of the past). What’s sad about this to me, is that I think this site was spawned by that by-gone era of browsing. Finding strange things online that directly or indirectly related to print was an inquiry not that different than walking with a metal-detector out on a beach. You didn’t necessarily know what you’d find.

by Jason Urban, posted on Printeresting 6 Feb 2012

printeresting:

Incredible digital/print pop-up book. (via Between Page and Screen)

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futuramb:

infoneer-pulse:

What does your gut tell you about this statement: “Kids in high school read more books for fun than their parents.”

In fact, it’s true. Young adult reading is up 20% since the last time the survey was done by the Feds, and a recent commercial survey finds the same thing.

Of course, these kids aren’t reading the right books, the books we read, the hard books.

» via The Domino Project

This is exactly why the book as physical product of dead tree are being marginalized. Not, it is not going to disappear anytime soon. It is just being dwarfed by all other ways of distributing stories and knowledge.

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condensed-univers:

“If you like both robots and typography, you’ll be pleased with this bible-writing robot created by the fine people of robotlab in Zürich.”
- Typography Daily

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booksnbuildings:

Digitalisation in progress.

teachingliteracy:

All your tweets in a book.

All your Tweets in a Book, collects and typesets every tweet that you’ve ever made, annotated with date and time, along with an index of mentions and word frequency, then publishes it to Lulu.