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This article gets a lot right — the death of newspapers has been exaggerated. They still sell, though sales are falling, and they’re still profitable. The smart ones are becoming more profitable even as sales decline — in other words, they have a product that has been underpriced until now. What’s happening to the newspaper [...]
Filed under: Technology, media
A colleague is trying out the Kindle, which has inevitably made me want one, despite my skepticism. But I’m not sold yet: its browser capabilities have received bad reviews, and the function I would chiefly use an e-book reader for, reading free PDF books, is only available with the $489 Kindle DX. (Yes, I know [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology, academia
No, that’s not like the Craigslist Killer for bluestockings. It’s the iPhone, as Ann Kirschner argues:
Kindle, shmindle. It does almost nothing that an iPhone can’t do better — and most important, the iPhone is always with me. Woody Allen had it right: Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. Yes, the Kindle’s reasonable [...]
Filed under: Books, Technology