Comments for clivemcgoun.net http://clivemcgoun.net Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:05:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Is the one, anonymous multi-authored set of fragments the future of the book? by Clive McGoun http://clivemcgoun.net/blog/uncategorized/the-future-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-72124 Clive McGoun Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:05:03 +0000 http://clivemcgoun.net/?p=2052#comment-72124 Thanks - I'll check out the apps for Theodore Gray’s “The Elements”. Shields would celebrate them no doubt as responding to the multivalient 'reality' in which we live. Lanier would argue that the only book would be Google's - so no problems with copyright - but real problems for a humanist future. Interesting times. Thanks – I’ll check out the apps for Theodore Gray’s “The Elements”. Shields would celebrate them no doubt as responding to the multivalient ‘reality’ in which we live. Lanier would argue that the only book would be Google’s – so no problems with copyright – but real problems for a humanist future. Interesting times.

]]> Comment on Is the one, anonymous multi-authored set of fragments the future of the book? by Michael http://clivemcgoun.net/blog/uncategorized/the-future-of-books/comment-page-1/#comment-72119 Michael Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:09:59 +0000 http://clivemcgoun.net/?p=2052#comment-72119 Ebooks will not be just "copies of [the print books] text." It is now but that is like saying that the first DVDs were nothing more than digitized VHS tapes. For an example of what books as apps will look like check out the iPad apps for Theodore Gray's "The Elements" and the Marvel Comics app. And as for whether works "can be linked, manipulated, highlighted, bookmarked, translated, enlivened by other media, and sewn together in the universal library" just ask Google about copyright infringement. Ebooks will not be just “copies of [the print books] text.” It is now but that is like saying that the first DVDs were nothing more than digitized VHS tapes. For an example of what books as apps will look like check out the iPad apps for Theodore Gray’s “The Elements” and the Marvel Comics app.

And as for whether works “can be linked, manipulated, highlighted, bookmarked, translated, enlivened by other media, and sewn together in the universal library” just ask Google about copyright infringement.

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