women and men communicate differently
Automated text categorization techniques applied to writing style can identify an author’s sex with 80% accuracy. … Read the post women and men communicate differently
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cost of color important competitive disadvantage for print
Humans prefer colorful images. That gives a significant cost advantage to digital media over print media. … Read the post cost of color important competitive disadvantage for print
e-books will soon be more important than print books
The publishing industry is in the midst of a major digital transition. In July, 2010, Amazon, the leading U.S. e-book retailer, reported that in the past three months it had sold 143 Kindle e-books for every 100 hardcover books sold.[1] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stated, “I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the … Continue reading e-books will soon be more important than print books
different forms and business models for e-books
Inventive Labs’ web guru Joseph Pearson has thought deeply about e-books. He argues convincingly that e-books should be paginated. Shrewdly recognizing the comparative advantage of traditional book publishers, he argues that the e-book format EPUB should not attempt to be a highly flexible web application platform: For [book publishers] that are not software houses in … Continue reading different forms and business models for e-books
what makes a book
What makes a book is its binding. The binding implies a linear order of text and turning pages.[1] A book is a slow, regular, rhythm of new textual images that plays out a story. A book is a filmic projection of text, run in slow motion. Turning pages isn’t the same as scrolling. Scrolling is … Continue reading what makes a book