The reading experience, just as with any online or face-to-face experience, is about how the customer wants to be served. What’s good for you, may be the opposite of what I want to get from your store or website. Reading is no exception.
The idea of curling up with a book and a cup of hot coffee on a cold winter night may be sound like fun to some people, but those who are addicted to reading may not necessarily care what form the “book” takes. Whether it’s the printed word, on a Kindle, or reading interactively online, people will to continue to read, just in new ways.
- Will Books Be Napsterized? Free books at your library (legal). Pirated books online also free (but not so legal).
- Curling Up With Hybrid Books, Videos Included “…the notion of the book is becoming increasingly elastic as publishers mash together text, video and Web features in a scramble to keep readers interested in an archaic form of entertainment.”
- Is This the Future of the Digital Book? Discover a multimedia hybrid in the “Vook.”
- Infinite Book Looks More Like An Infinite Brochure, Still My Favorite Digital Media Reader Concept Is this the “missing link” between the digital and analogues worlds? It’s all digital, but you can still flip the pages.
