Wall Street Journal article by Alexandra Alter, "Our E-Books Are Reading Us" is worth reading, sharing, and discussing. http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2012/06/our_ebooks_are.shtml
As publishers and authors learn more about how readers read, which books they read faster, which lines are highlighted the most by readers... it will change what readers are offered. That is not necessarily a good thing. Think I'll stay offline book-wise and keep my reading choices a little more to myself. On the bright side, it might help text book publishers learn how to better engage students.
Here's how Alexander Alter's article starts...
"It takes the average reader just seven hours to read the final book in Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy on the Kobo e-reader—about 57 pages an hour. Nearly 18,000 Kindle readers have highlighted the same line from the second book in the series: "Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them." And on Barnes & Noble's Nook, the first thing that most readers do upon finishing the first "Hunger Games" book is to download the next one." more
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PLEASE NOTE: Senior Summer School for iPad and Kindle users starts Tuesday afternoon, July 3rd. Instructor is John Chan and his Tablet Team. See the San Mateo Senior Center Computer Group newsletter at http://www.ackerfield.com/smsccg/newsletter.pdf
iPad/Kindle (Conference Room)
Tuesday 2:00 pm – 4 pm 7/3 thru 7/24
8/7 thru 8/21&22
9/4 thru 9/25
