- "A disruptive technology... is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology there." ~Wikipedia: disruptive technology; see also: diffusion of innovations; hype cycle
- "In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: 'cutting out the middleman'. Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of intermediate (such as a distributor, wholesaler, broker, or agent), companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet." ~Wikipedia: disintermediation
- "We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." ~Clifford Stoll, 1995
Personal Tech > E-Book Readers (NYT articles)- One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtaking E-Readers, As Printed Book Consumption Continues To Decline: Pew 12/27/2012
- Why 2012 was the year of the e-single E-singles: stories somewhere between 5,000 and 30,000 words, usually nonfiction, and sold as inexpensive ebooks are the format for our time; 12/24/2012
- Amazon Is Ripe For Disruption reviews; sales data; innovation; 12/18/2012
- Dunbar Family Forced To Discontinue Print Edition Of Christmas Newsletter The Onion ;-); 12/3/2012
- This is what the publishing industry will look like if the Big Six become the Big Four Random House + Penguin; Harper Collins + Simon & Schuster; 11/20/2012
- How Dead Is the Book Business? just the beginning of a series of mergers; role of patents; do large companies grow through efficiency and innovation or by abusing their leverage? 11/13/2012
- Reimagination of Knowledge (Trend graphs): Encyclopedias; Magazines; Textbooks 11/2012
- E-readers grapple with a future on the shelf e-reader (eInk) has become a transitional technology; 10/28/2012
- E-Books Finally Get Traction in Japan slow adoption due to difficulty with Japanese characters, digital rights; 10/25/2012
- Pew surveys young Americans on e-reading, but the data is old 10/23/2012
- E-Books: The Next Chapter subscription reqd; The rush to e-books isn't without its obstacles, as questions arise about compatibility, sharing and pricing; 7/2012
- Every Successful New Technology Has Created Panic From Those It Disrupts 6/22/2012
- Capitalists Who Fear Change 6/19/2012
- 1-in-3 eReading Devices Is Used for What? "shame-reading" (erotic, young adult, sci-fi); 5/25/2012
- OnlineUniversities: E-book Nation infographic on right; 5/8/2012
- What Amazon's ebook strategy means disintermediation via internet; consumer-side retail monopoly; supplier-side wholesale monopsony (one distrib., many suppliers); eliminate DRM to survive? 4/15/2012
- The rise of e-reading Pew; 4/4/2012; A fifth of Americans have read an e-book in the past year. E-book readers read more than other readers, and are now spending more time reading. But they aren’t just reading e-books, they also read paper books. Also key: e-reader owners prefer to buy rather than borrow more than print readers do (61 percent vs. 54 percent). Where the reading action is: Forty-two percent read e-books on computers, 41 percent on e-readers, 29 percent on cell phones and 23 percent on tablets.
- The Way We Read Now the case for e-books; are some reading materials better suited to one platform than another? 3/18/2012
- Disruptions: Time to Review F.A.A. Policy on Gadgets 3/18/2012
- Electronic Mini-books that Allow Writers to Stretch Their Legs (Kindle Singles: long-form journalism between magazine articles and hardcover books); 3/7/2012
- E-books Can’t Burn NY Review of Books; 2/15/2012
- H-P Banks on Digital Printing Presses 2/14/2012
Hackett bookish after Internet sale (MidnightSun Publishing: multi-platform, multi-format books); 2/9/2012- The Bookstore’s Last Stand (Barnes & Noble); 1/29/2012
- The Book Beyond the Book (hybrid, enhanced print books with ancillary materials); 12/25/2011
- Sunday Dialogue: Reading Books in the Digital Age (NYT Readers); 12/25/2011
- Divisive Devices: When Couples Find Gadgets Interfere with Harmony 12/8/2011
Windows author Ed Bott and partners launch ‘digital first’ book publishing company: Fair Trade Digital Exchange 11/30/2011- Please let this not be the future of reading on the web (ads, buttons, clutter); 11/23/2011
- Facebook 'Idiot's Guide' Inadvertently Makes Case for E-Books (updating a rapidly changing topic); 11/13/2011
- The book is great technology, but it’s not good for everything (media; social; educational; e.g., cookbooks); 11/10/2011
Our relationship with e-books: It’s too complicated (Balkanization, E-book hell; sharing notes/passages: OpenMargin, Readmill, Findings; sharing books, unavail features; DRM); 11/1/2011- Books Unbound ("Books in Browsers" conference; what is a book?); 10/28/2011
- Room for Debate: Will Amazon Kill Off Publishers? 10/24/2011
- Does Amazon Want to Monopolize The Entire Publishing Chain? 10/12/2011
- Great digital expectations: Digitisation may have came late to book publishing, but it is transforming the business in short order 9/10/2011
Seniors, Women Embracing Tablets, E-Readers 8/29/2011- Ladies love e-readers; guys prefer tablets 8/25/2011
- Publishing Gives Hints of Revival, Data Show 8/9/2011
- Why Did Facebook Buy an e-Book Publisher? 8/2/2011
- E-Book Revolution Upends a Publishing Course (at Columbia); 7/17/2011
- New Report on Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors 7/11/2011
The book is not dead, it's just shape-shifting 7/10/2011- Complaint Box | How E-Readers Destroyed My Love Life 7/4/2011
- E-reader ownership doubles in six months (to 12%); 6/27/2011
- E-sales to imprints: Amazon's ambitious publishing plan 5/28/2011
- Why is the Nook Color a hit among women? 5/23/2011
- Publishers Speedily Churn Out Newsworthy Books 5/6/2011
- Will Book Publishers Ever Be Irrelevant? 4/12/2011
Playing Catch-Up in E-Books 4/4/2011- The E-book Generation (no, the other one) (over-50s; 3/26/2011
- How to get a book lover to consider an e-book reader (ereader cases); 3/17/2011
- E-Book Tarnishes The Reader-Book Relationship (privacy); 3/7/2011
- Pew: Generations & Gadgets (incl. e-Book Readers and Tablet Computers); 2/3/2011
- Is Your E-Book Reading Up On You? 12/15/2010
Recent study shows six million e-readers owned in the USA 12/5/2010- Blurring the Line Between Apps and Books 10/25/2010
- The line between book and Internet will disappear 9/10/2010
Kindle, iPad Search for Niche in Differing Demographics 1/29/2010- Amid iPad Mania, Will Bookworms Be Left Behind? 1/28/2010
- In An Era Of Immediacy, Why Fear The E-Book? (narrative bias, reader experience); 1/27/2010
- How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing (words vs. language; length (Twitter); distraction); 12/30/2009
- A New Page Can the Kindle really improve on the book? New Yorker; 8/3/2009
- Kindle users skew older; does that impact news biz’s revenue hopes? 4/29/2009
E-books now on NYT best seller list- Are e-readers making books obsolete?
- Good E-Reader – ebook Reader and Digital Publishing News
- The Future of Publishing articles
- International Digital Publishing Forum (formerly Open E-book Forum: www.openebook.org)
