… Zip drives ate floppies.
CDs ate Zips.
DVDs ate CDs.
SD cards ate film.
LCDs ate CRTs.
Telephony ate telegraphy.
Text messaging ate talking.
Tablets are eating our paper …
Grab a hot drink and read it NOW.
Update 24th Dec 2012 – video now available
In this post I’m going to try to set down my current thoughts about the evolution of academic publishing. This is very much a work in progress so please excuse me if it’s not entirely coherent.
Recently Amazon announced – in the US only, naturally – Whispercast. Whispercast is an online tool that Amazon is marketing as a method of deploying Kindles in your school or business. Given my long-standing wish for a way to deploy electronic books to devices in a way that isn’t astronomically expensive or entirely crazy-making, I was naturally interested.
I have just begun work on making an ebook using a blog as the source material. Almost immediately I stumbled across my first problem – how should I include blog comments and the related tags/categories?
My first thought is to simply include any comments at the end of the blog post (chapter) with a link to the original post in case any further comments are posted after the book is released.
I wonder what the copyright position is of this, if the blog is a flavour of creative commons does this include comments too?
When I decide what to do i’ll update this post.