http://www.blackplasticglasses.com Musings on Publishing and life in the Digital Age by Evan Schnittman Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:07:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2010/03/23/digital-reading/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2010/03/23/digital-reading/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:15:02 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=445 This was brilliantly summarized in 2003 by Niko Pfund, OUP’s VP of Academic and Trade Publishing, when he referred to this kind of reading as “extractive, as opposed to immersive.” Extractive reading is an extension of search – its primarily purpose is to “extract” information from searched databases. Extractive reading is easily done...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2010/03/23/digital-reading/feed/ 5 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/07/20/demand-pricing-for-ebooks/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/07/20/demand-pricing-for-ebooks/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:18:25 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=350 Is Dominique Raccah making a smart decision?  There are a lot of factors to consider. Amazon has claims that sales of ebooks are 35% of the same print titles on Amazon.com.  If the hardcover is priced at $25 and the ebook $10, then one can see Dominique’s point quite clearly – delaying the ebook version could mean that demand for 35% of the...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/07/20/demand-pricing-for-ebooks/feed/ 17 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/11/disintermediation/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/11/disintermediation/#comments Mon, 11 May 2009 10:28:06 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=183 Disruption and Generation On-Demand, explored my own personal content consumption disruption and traced it through the seismic shift in my reading, listening, and watching habits. My experience seems to align with the generational experience of content at one’s fingertips, on-demand. I called this phenomenon Generation On-Demand because this generation has grown up with and expects that everything and anything (content) be available to them, however, whenever, and wherever they want. I traced the dramatic decrease in my own immersive reading, music listening, and TV and movie watching in the last few years and cited my ability to work and play whenever and wherever I want as the primary reasons. Accessing...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/11/disintermediation/feed/ 4 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 09:58:18 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=133 Disruption is the first part of a 3-part series on the zeitgeist of the digital era and the significant impact it has on publishing and all other content businesses. Disruption is personal as I look at my own content consumption over the years and document its transformation. There are no answers in part 1, just the facts as I understand them and the questions they spur. I grew up watching TV. Born in 1963, life in my era was, in many ways, controlled by the TV broadcast schedule. Before school was Looney Tunes and after school hours and hours of crap like Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, and the Brady...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/feed/ 7 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/26/smithereens-tommy/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/26/smithereens-tommy/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:07:40 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=121 Smithereens did something really unique – they did a covers album. Actually, they covered an album. The Smithereens recorded the Beatles breakthrough album, Meet The Beatles, from the first track through the last. Meet the Smithereens is a fun romping and wonderful re-imagining of the spirit of the early Liverpool Beatles as heard through the power-pop chords and Marshall amps of New Jersey’s Smithereens. On May 5th, the Smithereens are back at it again with the release of the Who's Tommy. As much as I was ready to roll my eyes at the thought of it – in listening to...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/26/smithereens-tommy/feed/ 3 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/06/drm/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/06/drm/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:47:58 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=24 All Things Considered I had a brief sound bite about DRM (Digital Rights Management) and the music industry. What you didn’t get to hear was the larger point I was trying to pull together – which is that DRM is not bad, nor is it good. It is like any tool, only as good (or bad) as it is implemented. DRM has gotten a lot of press over the years as there is a quite vocal group who are politically/philosophically, perhaps even morally opposed to any restrictions on the use of content once disseminated. I call them the “Anti-DRMers.” They come in many forms – from scholarly archivists to Swedish anarchists. http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/04/06/drm/feed/ 9