The document discusses the history and current state of ebooks and ebook readers. It provides a timeline of important developments in ebooks dating back to 1971, with many major companies and products launching between 2005-2010. The document also outlines different ebook formats, the support of formats on major ebook readers, differences in DRM and other features among devices. It shares some examples of universities experimenting with ebook readers in education but students still prefer printed books for note-taking and other learning benefits.
1. Books are so last century
Scott McNulty
Monday, May 24, 2010
2. Why am I here?
• eReader junkie
• Wrote a book sold only in
electronic form
• Former Wharton Computing
Employee
• Will present for food
Monday, May 24, 2010
25. Student participants reduced the amount of paper
they used to print course readings by almost 50
percent. However, e-readers must be significantly
improved to have the same value in a teaching
environment as traditional paper texts,
participants said.
Princeton -
http://bit.ly/princekindle
Administration
Monday, May 24, 2010
26. “Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with
the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and
other marks representing the importance of certain passages —
not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas
come from and interaction with the material occurs,” he
explained. “All these things have been lost, and if not lost
they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the
‘features’ have been rendered useless.”
Princeton - Students http://bit.ly/princestudent
Monday, May 24, 2010
27. Darden’s Kindle experiment is not
quite over but the verdict is
already in: Most Darden students
prefer not to use the electronic
reading devices in the B-school
classroom.
Darden http://bit.ly/dardenkindle
Monday, May 24, 2010
28. Find Me
• Twitter: @blankbaby
• Blog: http://
blog.blankbaby.com
• Google: Scott McNulty (I’m the
one that isn’t a church organist
and who doesn’t make nature
sound CDs).
• Email: smcnulty@gmail.com
Monday, May 24, 2010
