http://www.blackplasticglasses.com Musings on Publishing and life in the Digital Age by Evan Schnittman Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:32:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 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/ 4 http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/06/04/google-editions-cloud-publishing/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/06/04/google-editions-cloud-publishing/#comments Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:23:04 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=236 These are not ebooks, these are Google Editions. Google Editions will be composed of content that is currently (or will be) found in the Google Partner Program.  The Partner Program of Google Book Search is the discoverability...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/06/04/google-editions-cloud-publishing/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/2009/05/06/generation-on-demand/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/06/generation-on-demand/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 09:52:20 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=173 Disruption, explored my personal content consumption over the years and ended with the observation that everything that I used to enjoy had now seen a dramatic reduction in consumption. I ended the piece with the question “So if I am not purchasing as many new books and I don’t buy as much new music and I don’t really watch TV and I only watch movies when I want to in my own home, what the hell am I doing with all the time I must have on my hands?" I will now try to answer that question. I was interviewed the other day Adam Penenberg,...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/06/generation-on-demand/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