Future of Reading
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10 media and tech luminaries on the future of reading, I’m number 10. Also includes Jimmy Wales, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jarvis, and Kevin Rose.
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10 media and tech luminaries on the future of reading, I’m number 10. Also includes Jimmy Wales, Marc Andreessen, Jeff Jarvis, and Kevin Rose.
Hi Matt, when I saw the title of this post I was expecting something more valuable with a bit more substance than what I found here.
I mean it’s cool that you’re number ten and all; really but I would have expected something about the future of reading here….. which I strongly believe, will be more like the future of watching. Video is coming to take over the Internet and with ever faster Internet connections, reading will soon be secondary to watching.
What say you?
Click the link! There’s what I think, and also what some people way smarter than me think.
They saved the best for last! Vendors and publishers do have some A / B testing ahead of them to see what their ‘captive’ audiences will like most.
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I like the benefits of the Kindle that you referenced in your essay (having it with you all the time, being able to read more books because it’s more convenient).
At the same time, I’m leery of the status of the Right to Read going forward.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
iPad for the win
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Congrats Matt … you’re almost an Auttomatic! in for things like this!
I think the future of items like the iPad and future tablet items will make online publishers lives all the more powerful …
… not to mention the speed-read from editors …
I am a spiritual learner.
Hopefully, everything will move through my Google Reader!
On a related note, Marissa Mayer has a nice bit relating to the shrinking of reading units at http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/05/atomic-unit-of-online-consumption.html