- Luna’s Café: Typography is about reading – and so are ebooks "How can so little care be given to the presentation of text on a[n electronic] page? Do publishers care, or even realize, what is happening to the texts they lovingly commission, copy-edit, and proof-read, when they enter the electronic domain?"
- Bat, Bean, Beam – A Weblog on Memory and Technology: Laconia "And so we come to that paradox that the Bridle experiment had already highlighted from the moment it came into being: namely, how the medium of print, even as it is more and more feverishly being declared obsolete, becomes a repository and keeper of native digital information, a place were bits come to be saved."
- Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader | Institute of Network Cultures More from the folks behind the Unbound Book conference.
- I Read Where I Am – Essays on the future of books Graphic Design Museum/Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2011 – Essays by many, including me, product of the Unbound Book conference.
- The Nameless Horror, Price, Insanity And The Race To The Bottom "The same price for both a mass-produced commodity consumed by the tonne in minutes, and a thing I hand-carved over a period of a couple of months of blood, sweat and tears. Tell me I’m wildly over-pricing myself here. Go on. I’ll wait. No? The thing’s sure as fuck worth more than a dollar."
- Design Professionalism – by Andy Rutledge Highlighting this because I don't think many people in publishing are aware of this model, flourishing in tech/design circles: content free online, paid ebook version, no print.
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