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The Unbound Book Conference, May 19-21

Reading and publishing in the digital age The conventional notion of the book, based on centuries of print, is rapidly growing outdated. The book is coming unbound in a double sense: both freed from the bindings of the printed...

By Elias van Hees on 04/12/11 Comments Off

The Future of Magazine Publishing in the digital age

In fact, magazines were pioneers in niche content before cable TV and the Internet came along and usurped them with the flashy video of the former and the interactive communities of the latter. (Glaser, 2005) It is no longer...

By Lotte Woerde on 10/21/10 1

A Clay Tablet Is Not a Book

Mcluhan believed the medium to be the message. When we are trying to understand the effects of the medium, we ought to analyze the medium. And when the medium changes, the message is bound to transform. Who’s utopian vision...

By Mareline Heijman on 10/19/10 Comments Off

The Era Of The Digital – a lineage

The Daily We ‘The principal threat to the Richmond Daily News, and indeed to all newspapers small and large, was not competition from other newspapers but radical changes in the overall ecosystem of information.’ As Clay Shirky explains the...

By Fenneke Mink on 10/18/10 2

Save trees, read online?

Now a days you can do anything online. You can watch television or video's online, games, you can play them online. You even can have a conversation online through e-mail or chat programs. A new online trend is e-publishing....

By Floor Broer van Dijk on 10/13/10 Comments Off