Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading.
Your E-Book Is Reading You
Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading.
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Let's talk about Goodreads.
Publishing obsesses over Goodreads, but does Goodreads actually sell books?
Reconsidering the Hardware Kindle Interface
Small tweaks to incentivize engaging with a book’s content.
The 'Future Book' Is Here, but It's Not What We Expected
Visionaries thought technology would change books. Instead, it's changed everything about publishing a book.
I stopped my Kindle from opening other books until I’ve finished the current one
You can read me like a (currently) open book.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
The Revolutionary Effect of the Paperback Book
This simple innovation transformed the reading habits of an entire nation
Hardcover
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The New Age of Reading
Alarm about declining interest in books is perpetual. But, as bookselling reaches unexpected heights, James Daunt, the chief executive of Barnes & Noble, thinks a different future is at hand.
Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books
We've long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn't sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn't been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence.
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction by Mairead Small Staid
February 8, 2019 – Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?
How to create reading experiences that "go beyond information transmission and toward reader transformation.” Great paper by @blue-phia.bsky.social @lepidopterane.bsky.social @yijunliu.bsky.social Sarah Sterman @sh1m.bsky.social @maxkreminski.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.04308 >
