One of the more ridiculous things I saw last week was the iPad, sporting iBooks, mimicking as closely as possible the process of reading a real book. Why is this ridiculous? Because it’s not a book, it’s a touchscreen electronic device. It may be pretty, but it’s certainly wasn’t designed with the ideal user experience in mind.
That cute app typifies exactly what’s going on with print. Everyone is asking if the iPad can save print, but that’s not even a valid question–once content is on the iPad, “print” ceases to exist.
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I’ll pretty freely admit that I have a book addiction. I’d like to say I purchase a book, read it, then purchase another one, but that’s just not the case. What usually happens is I get interested in something, go to Amazon, and buy the top two or three books on the subject. As time goes on I collect more and more books until I have a huge stack of half-read books that I have to tackle. I usually get through them, but it’s a big mess.
To make matters worse, I got a Kindle for Christmas. That’s like putting a giant vodka vending machine in an alcoholic’s bedroom and taking away their anti-depressants. I can literally buy a book with a click of a button and have it in front of me within a couple of minutes. The results of my post-Christmas binge are starting to pile up (both in ebooks and real books), so I figured I’d challenge myself to finish all of them before I bought another book. After I finish a book from list the I’ll write up a short review and add some of my own thoughts, the check it off the list. Here she is:
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Whether you’re a social media expert, or you just happen to pick up a business section every now and then, you’re probably well aware that social networking sites can’t seem to make any money. Facebook can’t do anything right, twitter hasn’t even bothered to develop a coherent revenue model, and even digg is losing millions [...]
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