Here is an example of a decent idea with marginal execution. A company called BookTour.com manages a directory of media contacts, including bloggers, who may be interested in reviewing books. They call this their Pressfinder service. The site uses a freemium model where authors can make a limited number of directories queries for free, then [...]
Jakob Nielsen has been conducting reading comprehension tests among a variety of reading devices. He says people can read books fastest in printed book form. But, people seem to find the experiences fairly comparable: [On a 1-7 scale, the] iPad, Kindle, and the printed book all scored fairly high at 5.8, 5.7, and 5.6, respectively. [...]
I had a chance to catch up on some reading while on vacation. Here are a few things I’ve enjoyed. Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand. Brand takes what he calls a pragmatic look at common environmental debates and provides perspectives that really do seem pragmatic compared to the polarized views that make it into [...]
I ate dinner with a group of friends in Vancouver the other night in the front window of a tapas restaurant. While grazing on various dishes, a homeless guy kept walking up to the window with various things he’d stolen from neighboring businesses. This included potted plants, small jewelery, and this book: After a couple [...]
One of the cool things about visiting a bricks & mortar book store is the browsing. You never know what you’ll run into in the aisles. For example, I found an intriguing book written by the wife of country singer Alan Jackson that I hadn’t heard of before. Somehow I don’t think I’ll ever be [...]
Unfortunately, I can’t remember how I ended up here, but regardless, it’s worth checking this out. Garrick cites Seth Godin on this. Sounds right.
Warning: if you visited the Grand Canyon over the past three years and bought a book about the Grand Canyon at the bookstore called Grand Canyon: A Different Tale, there’s a good change you’re geologically challenged: HOW OLD IS THE GRAND CANYON? PARK SERVICE WON’T SAY “In August 2003, Park Superintendent Joe Alston attempted to [...]
