E-Book Readers and Print Readers

Q: If you read something on an e-reader, will you understand it as well as if you had read it in an ink-on-paper book?

A: Yes.

— “Readers Grasp E-Books Just As Well As Print,” Nic Halverson, Discovery News

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eBooks Baffle Undergrads

“Undergraduate Science Students are Uncertain of How to Find Facts in E-books Compared to Print Books,” Christina E. Carter, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.

Hat tip:  Christina K. Pikas

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Fire Sale

Download your summer cookout at a fire sale price. Mark Bittman’s Kindle Single e-book What I Grill and Why is on sale for $1.99 $0.99. Cooking tip: don’t put your Kindle too close to the grill or it will melt.

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Books and eBooks

 

Amazon.com reported that, in its last quarter, eBooks outsold hardbacks. The media went mad:

Kindle: Told You So

Told you so. Six months ago Stephanie at UrbZen pointed out the downside of the web-based Kindle digital book reader, the ability of the content provider to alter the text without warning or reader agreement.  Her concerns were echoed by Nicholas Carr.

Amazon decided to demonstrate this principle by making digital copies of George Orwell’s 1984 disappear from devices after readers had paid for and downloaded them. Could any book be more appropriate? Here’s some initial coverage:

“Orwellian Amazon kindles Big Brother fears,” Sydney Morning Herald

“Amazon’s Orwellian Instincts,” Faster Times

“Amazon Apologizes For Its ‘Big Brother’ Move on Kindle,” Switched.com

“Why did Big Brother remove paid-for content from Amazon’s Kindles?” The Guardian