“Perhaps we are already discovering that this new world is a touch more fertile” for enhanced ebooks than we thought. Or is this wishful thinking on my colleague Philip Jones’ part? His musings on this issue are timely, particularly as they came to us in his Tuesday FutureBook column, The smart book for a new… Read More
'Smart layers' and resistance: Joe Wikert on the 'Dynamic Book'
Allowing publishers to ‘webbify’ the book At Books in Browsers, the annual conference produced by Peter Brantley, you hear the phrase “networked book” quite a bit. In its most reachy potential, the “networked book” is an exhilarating concept of information existing in its most connected state — whatever that state might be. No longer a thing but… Read More
Beneath the Ink: Under the Radar
‘A wild hair’ “My first job was as a Walt Disney Imagineer,” Sherisse Hawkins says, “and that was about designing theme parks and rollercoasters.” And before she struck out on her own, her 25 years in corporate positions included being vice-president of subscriber equipment and navigation with Time Warner Cable. While there, she was named Woman… Read More