I like Futurebook.net, I really do. They tend to write on point commentary about, as the name might suggest, the future of books. But since Waterstones agreed to start selling Kindles, the folks at Futurebook seem to have embraced the old guard tactic of hating Amazon. This obviously bears repeating: hating Amazon is not a [...]
05.22.12 | media, technology | bradley
It’s 2012 and the state of our digital content stream is bullshit. We are nearly 3 years from the switch to a pure digital broadcast television system, six years since computers landed in our living rooms disguised as gaming consoles and 16 years since the passing of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We have home networks, [...]
03.26.12 | life, media, technology | bradley
Got the January GoodReads newsletter today, and as per usual, I scrolled through the new releases by genre only to be let down by what is currently being passed off as “fantasy.” Skim these and meet me on the other side: Shadow Heir by Richelle Mead From the description, “The uneasy truce between her and [...]
Or How, After More Than a Decade, The Times Still Doesn’t Get The Internet After years of talk, the New York Times finally released details regarding their new pay wall yesterday. Despite receiving mixed reviews, I am failing to see how anyone could see the new Times plan as anything but a bad idea. First, [...]
03.18.11 | media, technology | bradley
Music did it. Movies did it. Television is doing it. Even the newspapers are reluctantly doing it. The book publishing industry now stands as the last major media format to make the leap from traditional publishing to digital. The leap is large. The leap is scary. This is the largest change to the printing of [...]
Though I used the music industry as the frequent example in my feature on online publishing, there is another industry that comes to mind – the current generation of video game consoles. This generation saw Nintendo break from the current processor and graphics arms race, and instead put out a console that was fun and [...]
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