Archive for the ‘The Great eBook Debate’ Category
In July 2012, Isobelle Carmody hosted an online forum called The Great eBook Debate.
It featured a collection of essays from luminaries of all aspects of the book world; authors, journalists, educators at all levels, overseas and indigenous authors and editors, large and independent publishers, illustrators and poets, commenting on the state of the publishing world and the effect the eVolution of books into digital formats has had on their lives, plus what this might pose for the future of reading.
This important and educational debate was a part of Isobelle’s Greylands eBook Launch, and since that event is over, the eVolution Debate is being republished online here, in Isobelle’s blog, including all public comments made during the debate, for all to read (or re-read) and enjoy.
The Greylands eBook is available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Booki.sh. The reprinted Ford St Publishing version of Greylands can be bought from the Ford St website.
The Inside Opinion – Exclusive Interview
Everyone remembers their first great book that they ever read, flipping the pages excitedly, imagining the characters inside your head, feeling what they feel, and seeing what they see. Whether it was sci-fi, mystery, romance..
Babar Still Loses His Crown
As a small child, maybe aged three or four, I would always be asking my mum or dad to read to me, and more often or not it was Babar Loses His Crown that I..
Just Tell the Story
What we do is we have an idea and then we tell someone. If we don’t it stays within the confines of our skull. If we decide to share it with someone else we might..
Private Reading, Public Places
The e-reader has transformed genre reading in two ways. It’s on its way to eliminating the storage problems obsessive crime, romance or Western readers have had, the crateloads of novels to be shelved awaiting reading..
E-Books Are Great, But I Want To Choose My Own Adventure
Who hasn’t read a story where they wished they could actually be inside it? See the landscape for yourself, see how the light falls, the air smells, the noise overwhelms you and see exactly how..
The Selfish Book
A newspaper here in Hong Kong recently ran a commentary about the children of many of the top executives at hi-tech companies in Silicon Valley –Google, Apple, Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard. These children attend the local Waldorf..
Ebooks and Libraries
Not long after the explosion of the internet, people began predicting the end of libraries. “Why do we need libraries anymore?” they’d ask. “All the information is out there, on the internet. Soon we won’t..
Book Phantoms
I am the granddaughter of a book collector. He had so many books that when he married my step-grandmother, he had the side verandah of her family house, a house in Vaucluse where she had..
The Storymaker
In From the Beast to the Blonde:On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers(1994), Marina Warner claims that ‘storytelling… banishes melancholy by refusing silence’, and that the story makes people ‘thrive'(xi). Kafka argues that as an art..
I am not a Luddite
I swear. I promise. I love my gadgets. I’ve been an enthusiastic up-taker of technology since I first laid eyes on an Apple computer back in 1987. I’ve had around eight Mac computers, desk- and..