tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post1914221614899517738..comments2024-02-20T03:18:43.590-05:00Comments on Magnificent Octopus: The future of the bookIsabella Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735198478395875257noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-53924409294875647772010-05-21T09:39:44.655-04:002010-05-21T09:39:44.655-04:00I think you were quite coherent given the material...I think you were quite coherent given the material you had to work with. Publishers are dragging their feet kicking and screaming over digital content and distribution and because of it they are part of the problem in the book business. So is their draconian concern about digital copyright. I agree with you that it is about the content and not the physicalness of the book. I love books, my house is filled to bursting with them, but as you say, a good many of them are nothing special in terms of their physical quality. Off to go investigate the links!Stefaniehttp://somanybooksblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-18543083968173171452010-05-20T18:46:34.867-04:002010-05-20T18:46:34.867-04:00If you haven't aleady, Pearl, check out the vi...If you haven't aleady, Pearl, check out the video in the link to the PEN panel discussion. Ben Okri argues pretty fiercely for the phsycial bookness of the book, saying something like you can't compare words written in the sky to words written on your ceiling. The thing is, most books aren't skies. He might have a point if my choice were between digital and gold-filigree illuminated manuscripts, but most books, honestly, are nothing special in terms of look and feel. I get lost in the words in that limited rectangular space, no matter how crappy the paper quality.<br /><br />There really is a lot to learn from the model of music.Isabella Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10735198478395875257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767816.post-58026284396855234282010-05-20T06:36:13.852-04:002010-05-20T06:36:13.852-04:00I'd have liked to have gone to that Blue Metro...I'd have liked to have gone to that Blue Metropolis talk. Opinions on the future is found to vary.<br /><br />Form is part of content but that books would become quaint nostalgia, elite fetish objects seems unlikely unless we are talking a scale of millennia not decade. <br /><br />With the invention of digital, AM radio and records have a changed market share but haven't been displaced. <br /><br />That they can aggregate what passages kindle readers underline is sorta disconcerting. Ergonomic software alone could spook some people to stay on the pulp page.Pearlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05251168248457758117noreply@blogger.com