Monday, February 9, 2009

E-books: the digital future

AT PUBLISHERS' CONFERENCE, THE DIGITAL FUTURE IS (ALMOST)
NOW:
Scholarly publishers who met in Washington last week learned
that interest in electronic monographs has surged and that
they should prepare to have their books read on smartphones.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2009/02/11057n.htm?utm_source=at&utm_med
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"The people who gathered here last week for the Association of American Publishers’ Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division's annual conference did not waste a lot of time worrying whether print is going the way of the dodo. As Matthew Nauman, director of publisher relations at Blackwell’s, put it, “A book sale is a book sale, and we don’t care what the format is.”"...