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May 19, 2022

What are different book formats good at?

Part 2, of the Series: “What is a ‘book’ in the age of the web?” This is part 2 of a 5-part series: “What is a “book” in the age of the web?.” In Part 1, I introduced the series, with the question: “Do (digital) textbooks matter now? Will (digital)…

Publishing

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What are different book formats good at?
What are different book formats good at?
Publishing

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Dec 15, 2021

What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5)

Background: “Can the ‘book’ remain relevant?” Ever since I started thinking about the implications of the web on the world of books and publishing, when I started LibriVox.org (free public domain audiobooks recorded by volunteers) in 2005, I have been asked in many different ways: “Can the ‘book’ remain relevant?” That is: can (should?) books retain…

Books

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What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5)
What is a “book” in the age of the web? (Part 1 of 5)
Books

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Jun 16, 2021

The Question Concerning Education Technology

2020–21: What a year During this year of the pandemic, teachers, and students have faced challenges and threats few of us ever imagined. …

Education Technology

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The Question Concerning Education Technology
The Question Concerning Education Technology
Education Technology

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Mar 20, 2020

Why #socialdistancing is life or death (Quebec version)

(I haven’t written anything here in a long while, I guess the apocalypse is as good a time as any to get back at it.) Taking social distancing very seriously helps reduce the spread of COVID. The impacts are huge. The “natural” growth of COVID before major social distancing measures…

Covid 19

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Covid 19

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Dec 1, 2017

A short story

It’s not very long! Sorry!

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Apr 21, 2016

What books can learn from the Web / What the Web can learn from books

This is the text of a talk I gave at the WWW2016 conference, on a panel with Tzviya Siegman (of Wiley & co-chair of the W3C’s Digital Publishing Interest Group), and Ivan Herman (W3C staff member on the DPIG). Tzviya talked about Scholarly Publishing in a Connected World, and Ivan…

Books

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What books can learn from the Web / What the Web can learn from books
What books can learn from the Web / What the Web can learn from books
Books

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Feb 3, 2016

Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?

[Note: This is a heavily revised text of a talk I gave at the Open Education Summit in Vancouver in November, 2016 (correction: 2015)] Kurt Vonnegut made some graphs of four archetypal stories: “Man in a hole,” “Boy meets girl,” “Kafka,” and “Cinderella.” The graphs chart the protagonist’s fortune, good…

Open Source

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Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?
Can Open Textbooks Help Save the Open Web?
Open Source

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Apr 22, 2015

Why can’t we read anymore?

Or, can books save us from what digital does to our brains? — Last year, I read four books. The reasons for that low number are, I guess, the same as your reasons for reading fewer books than you think you should have read last year: I’ve been finding it harder and harder to concentrate on words, sentences, paragraphs. Let alone chapters. Chapters…

Books

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Why can’t we read anymore?
Why can’t we read anymore?
Books

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