Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

If you only read one essay about the future of publishing, read this one, by Craig Mod:

Lane Smith illustrated Stinky Cheese Man (one of my favorite children’s books). His latest work pits a book-reading Monkey against a laptop-using Jackass.  This 1-minute book trailer says it all:

Lane Smith is interviewed by the Wall Street Journal here.

Interesting article on Slate about the environmental impact of paper books vs ebooks.  The author, Brian Palmer, suggests we “think of an e-reader as the cloth diaper of books.”  “The iPad pays for its CO₂ emissions about one third-of the way through your 18^th book.”  (It takes 23 books to pay off the carbon footprint of a Kindle).

This is all fine and good, but he then urges us to “Buy your books online.  Brick-and-morter bookstores are horribly inefficient.”  Easy there, Brian.  I like my local bookstores, and I’ll keep shopping at them since they do good things like support local authors, recommend books I’d never have heard of otherwise, and say hello when I walk inside.  By the way, when was the last time you went to a real live author event at Amazon.com?