Sunday, 26 June 2011

Ebooks, a revolution? an evolution

Oddly enough, I am starting with a well known expression :) on a subject we all spoke and discussed a lot, well, another layer: "un mille-feuilles, c'est tellement bon"

It is a start, let see where that is going:

Like many events in life, we can choose to focus on the negative points, the one we can resent straight the effect, or rebalancing it with the non-obvious positive effects. Rather than stopping a discussion, it is building up further. I did gather many comments on both sides from informal discussions all around, and went to one conclusion, a dynamic one.

I did see e-books from a tweaked eye, as I loved very much the feeling of turning pages after pages, drawing my notes on it, and keeping each volume safe. I do agree and see ebooks as a positive future. A revolution? Just an evolution. And further if it does bring more people to read, building up services around ebooks

I do view it as a useful interaction with the e-sphere:
- through one click to wiktionary for the words I don’t bother to have a look at while reading,
-through links to news and blogs, or music,
-deciphering these odd footnotes via an active hyperlink.

Too much information might lose some, it is an education. So a presentation on all that, developing a constructive view of this business, through my eyes, and hopefully others.

Link to the presentation:


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