Despite youths’ tech comfort, e-textbook demand slow: Ebooks aren’t selling well as college textbooks either.
But after making the purchase, [the student] noticed a few things amiss: He couldn’t run a highlight marker over key points or jot notes in the margins, nor could he curl up with the tome without printing out the pages.
He won’t rule out another e-book, but he’s not completely sold, either.
I had a great experience with a couple ebooks a while back, but there’s was also a great book I read once that argued against them ever hitting the mainstream.
Prompted by Microsoft's generosity, I've started reading e-books, and I think I'm addicted. I read a book last year called "The Social Life of Information" which put forth all sorts of reasons why e-books weren't going to work. I agreed with it then, but after actually trying it,…
A great, great book about technology and where it's leading the human race. Can everything in the world be boiled down to binary information? Is there still a place for human interaction in the transmission of information? Does information have another life beyond computers? A...social life?