008: eBooks, with Connor Mason

What is the future of the book in this digital world? This week we are joined by special guest, Connor Mason, as we continue our series inspired by stock iOS apps. This time around we tackle eBooks and discuss what they mean for the future of reading and physical books. Connor questions how eBooks differentiate themselves from physical books. Bryan has us contemplate whether digital books are effective for learning, while Sean ponders the future of the library in a digital world. Sam wraps things up by discussing the challenges engineers and developers face when translating ink on a page into pixels on a screen. This episode, like War and Peace, is a doozie.

Episode 008: eBooks, with Connor Mason

In This Episode:

This week we are joined by special guest, Connor Mason, as we continue our series inspired by stock iOS apps. This time around we tackle eBooks and discuss what they mean for the future of reading and physical books.

Connor questions how eBooks differentiate themselves from physical books. Bryan has us contemplate whether digital books are effective for learning, while Sean ponders the future of the library in a digital world. Sam wraps things up by discussing the challenges engineers and developers face when translating ink on a page into pixels on a screen. This episode, like War and Peace, is a doozie.

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Intro

Connor Mason on Twitter: @conmas
Punchkick Interactive Inc.
Ohio State football revelers set fires, tear down goal post

Correction: 89 Fires, not 69
VIDEO: Car being set on fire

Connor: The Growth and Evolution of eBooks (Starts at 2:04)

BOOK: Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
INFOGRAPHIC: Past, Present, and Future of Email
Share passages from iBooks
United States Department of Justic classification of SPAM
Frozen: The Cinestory
PODCAST: Reply All #3: We Know What You Did
Kindle Paperwhite — Pay $20 for no “Special Offers” a.k.a. Ads
Apple’s iBooks Author
eBooks as Native Apps vs. Web Apps
Dynamically Update Your Ebooks with JavaScript
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
The New York Times’ Snowfall
Comparison of eBook Formats
The Internet vs. The Printing Press
Publishers love them paywalls
The ridiculous audiophile thing Sean was trying to think of, but couldn’t because why would anyone dedicate time to this?
Ogg-Vorbis or FLAC?
Computer or Fridge?

Bryan: eBooks vs. Physical Books (Starts at 16:29)

How problematic is eReading?
The problems of eReading Revisited
Do eBooks impair memory?
VINE: Turning to the exact page the teacher asks (NSFW)
This is your brain on eBooks
The Reading Brain in the Digital Age
Those tech books with animals on them
Charles Dickens
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
John Siracusa’s OS X Reviews
Cars:Horses :: eBooks:BookBooks
Are eBooks worse for kids than paper books?

Sean: The Library’s Role in the Internet Age (Starts at 24:45)

OverDrive
Libraries finding relevance
eBook Subscriptions
Project Gutenberg
Kindle Unlimited
The Emotional Design of the Mixtape
Nook: Lend eBooks to friends, sorta
A handy dandy shoehorn
Xbox One DRM Policy Reversal
VIDEO: PlayStation 4 Share Play

Sam: Should eBooks be enhanced or just the same? (Starts at 33:26)

Co-reading and eBooks
PlayCollective: Studying children, one kid at a time
Liberio: Simple eBook creation
Content is King
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
The Innovator’s Dilemma
The Wonderful S-Curve
Reading Disruption
How I’d Start (Restart) a Blog If I Were to Begin Today

Outro (Starts at 46:10)

Punchkick Interactive
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in Context
EBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for Automakers
Connor Mason on Twitter: @conmas
The Friday Five
The Dewey Decimal System

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Download Desk from the Mac App Store.