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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Download your Cookout

Combine Memorial Day Weekend cooking and holiday bargain shopping without leaving your computer. Mark Bittman has a new Kindle Single e-book, What I Grill and Why. It’s on sale for the Memorial Day Weekend ($1.99). We recommend it.

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The Cult of Kindle

“What bothers me … is not the Kindle’s functionality, or the decommissioning of the physical book (to the sound of Taps) that will inevitably result, but the outlandish, and at times outrageous rhetoric surrounding a machine that displays a fraction of available texts for a minority of people who can afford yet another endlessly upgradeable technology.”

 — “The Cult of Kindle and the Myth of Digital Utopia,” Kelly Roberts, PopMatters.

 

A more recent iteration of this article is at Slow Pendulums.

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Books and eBooks

 

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

On Books.

Quotation by critic and poet Meena Kandasamy, at The Digital Public Sphere: Books in the Age of New Media, Oct. 15, 2009, Iowa City Public Library as part of the 2009 Obermann Humanities Symposium, “Platforms for Public Scholars.”

 

(Hat tip: Scott McLemee, InsideHigherEd.com)

 

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