NISO E-Book Renaissance Forum in Boston #NISOEbooks
Amazing gaming example, words taken from a Billie Collins poem "New Word Order: Basra" http://t.co/aFtDwzqG #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 22:56:18Advice from Nick Montfort: "Don't build libraries to hold only Penguin paperbooks" #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 22:59:04More advice from Montfort: "Lend & Borrow from e-lit (as elid also does). #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 22:59:42#nisoebooks Montfort: 1. Don't build libraries to hold only Penguin paperbacks
2012-10-18 23:00:19More advice from Montfort: "Allow for public readings, signings, sharing, etc." We don't have the option to go in & discuss lit #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 23:00:27#nisoebooks Montfort 2. Lend to & borrow from e-lit (as e-lit also does) 3. Allow for public readings, signings, sharing, etc
2012-10-18 23:01:13Nick Montfort (MIT): Provide all the benefits of digital text. #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:01:16#nisoebooks Montfort 4. Provide all the benefits of digital text 5. Embrace computation
2012-10-18 23:01:44More advice from Montfort: "Provide all the benefits of digital text" =>Allow functionality based on digital form #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 23:01:51Last advice from Montfort: "Embrace computation" #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:02:27Any qeustions for Montfort? #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:03:07Chemical Landscapes Digital Tales, computation alongside text, relationship of language to photograms, http://t.co/btIeCFhj #NISOebooks
2012-10-18 23:07:37Publishers for the types of work that Nick Montfort describes don't yet exist. How can bookstores connect? Libraries? #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 23:11:50Watching the talk Access and preservation is a little bit dismissed here by Montfort “@joyfulsys: Montfort: revolution ... #NISOebooks”
2012-10-18 23:14:52Montfort suggests "standardizing e-books as part of the spectrum of book-like literary productions" #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:15:31http://t.co/QsIfxTZG = Directory of interesting new electronic literary works, along with metadata for discovery #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:16:47Some e-literature authors consider their work, performance, not a fixed work & don't believe that it needs to be preserved. #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:20:11Good q: how to handle containerless content citing Bob Stein early ebook work. Me: stein final work is in a container #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:24:09@joyfulsys correct but as lib and archivists our job is appraise and preserve diff perspective authors-creators eg kafka papers #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:28:34Next a panel of publishers moderated by Brian O'Leary (Magellan Media) @brianoleary #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 23:45:09Speaking on the panel: Ken Brooks (Cengage), Isabella Steel (HarperCollins), Adam Witwer (O'Reilly) #NISOEbooks
2012-10-18 23:46:17Shift from flat format ebooks in PDF to more interactive formats. #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:50:40#nisoebooks Isabella Steel eBooks are 10-15% UK market - 90% via Amazon
2012-10-18 23:52:26Witwer (O'Reilly Books) says biggest (lucrative) change for them direct sales to customer. #nisoebooks
2012-10-18 23:53:56Witwer: @OReillyMedia electronic media sales have exceeded their print sales #nisoebooks
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