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Rekindling Love of Reading With the Kindle
Virginia Hefferman writes a paean to her Kindle in today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine Section, describing the epiphany she had when she used Amazon’s e-reading device on an airplane. It certainly...
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Increasingly, It’s a Download World
Two seemingly unrelated stories in today’s news actually do carry a thread in common. The first is that the New York Times Company, parent of the newspaper, has sharply cut its dividends as a result of...
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The Screens Issue: The Screening of America
“As we head toward a way of life organized around the diversity of screens — I’m looking over my laptop at the television, while my iPod charges on the desk until I take it with me to my next...
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Just Tell the Mailman to Deliver to You c/o Googleplex
David Carr enumerates some, but by no means all, of Google features, services and programs he uses and concludes that for all intents and purposes he lives in Googleplex, as the media octopus’s...
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Next Step in Outsourcing – Your Editor’s Job?
Maureen Dowd, the trenchant Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, is unsettled if not freaked out by the lengths that a Pasadena newsman has gone to combat the erosion of the newspaper and magazine...
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YouTube Videos – From This You Can Make a Living?
Brian Stelter of the New York Times reports that a number of enterprising individuals are earning thousands of dollars a month as YouTube partners. Their videos attract enough traffic – millions and...
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The E-Book Celebrates its Coming of Age, with the Times Reciting the Benedition
Hallelujah! The New York Times has blessed the e-book. In Turning Page, E-Books Start To Take Hold, a full-dress, front page treatment by Brad Stone and Motoko Rich, the “Gray Lady” (as the flagship of...
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Book Pubs Headed for the Chop-Shop?
Michael Hirschorn’s recent article in The Atlantic, a doomsday scenario projecting the death of the New York Times as early as May, chilled the intellectual community like an icicle rammed into its...
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Borrowing Texts Without Giving Anything Back
My first encounter with the term “fair use” scarred me for life. I was an apprentice literary agent and one of the agency’s authors had quoted, without permission, a single line of a poem composed by a...
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Kosmix: What Happens When You Cross a Google and a Wikipedia
Students, your term paper worries may be over. Just submit your topic to Kosmix. It’ll collect and assemble information from the Internet, then “build a sort of multimedia encyclopedia entry on the...
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Just Slip My Newspaper Under My Door
After its latest round of cost-saving reductions, The New York Times may have to change its name to The New York Times Newsletter, and its motto to “All the Skinny That’s Fit to Print”. Bill Keller,...
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Get a Free Jumbo Kindle with Your NYT Subscription
King Gillette lives! The spirit of the mogul, who transformed product marketing by giving away the razor and selling the blades, hovered over Amazon’s press conference unveiling the big-screen Kindle...
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Can’t Sue for Libel in US? Take Your Beef to Britain, Libel Capital of the World
Next time you visit London, if you have an hour or two after visiting London Bridge, Westminster Palace and Big Ben, drop by a solicitor’s office and sue someone for libel. It will more than pay for...
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More Kindle-ing for Paper vs. Digital News Debate
Nicholas Carlson, employing a full complement of fingers and toes to perform his calculations, estimates that “it costs the Times about twice as much money to print and deliver the newspaper over a...
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“Watching” Books on E-Devices Debated in NYTimes
A year ago in a posting called Watching Books I wrote, Reading text on a screen without sound, color, or movement, one develops the uneasy feeling that something is missing. We wonder, Is that all...
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Google Sports a Few Stretch Marks. You Would Too if You Went From $0 to $22...
Google has been characterized by its critics as a one trick pony. Its CEO Eric Schmidt wryly admits it’s true. “You should think of Google as one product,” he says. The product? Customer satisfaction....
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London, A Town Called “Sue”, Rethinks Medieval Libel Laws
Last fall our piece about Britain’s outrageous libel laws (Can’t Sue for Libel in US? Take Your Beef to Britain, Libel Capital of the World) got a lot of attention, and perhaps some of the howls of...
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E-Books Perfect for Instant Repair of Screwups
If for no other reason, e-books are the perfect vehicle for immediately correcting errors in published books. And if the errors are serious enough to damage a person’s reputation or otherwise incur...
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Michiko Kakutani Surveys the Cut and Paste Culture
In the three years that we’ve been blogging we’ve urged you to read books and articles that we thought interesting, but we’ve never presumed to order you to read something. There’s always a first time,...
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NY Times Ethicist Condones Ripping off E-Books
Randy Cohen writes the “Ethicist” column for the Sunday edition of the New York Times, in which he offers solutions to moral dilemmas for people who have a hard time figuring out for themselves the...
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