Posts and opinion from Edward Nawotka
If e-readers offered haptic feedback for page turns, and audio cues coupled with physical feedback for a keyboard, it would change virtual reading and writing.
At CES this week, One Laptop Per Child is showing off a new $100 tablet computer with a low-power, full color screen for developing nations.
In 2011 self-publishing and e-books turned the industry on its head. But Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Harry Potter still made headlines.
Thank you to our readers, colleagues, supporters and friends for making 2011 a success for Publishing Perspectives.
Editor in Chief, Edward Nawotka, discusses his relationship with books and the one e-book enhancement that has yet to be developed.
In her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks notes a parochialism in American writing.
Do you spend your holiday's buried in an easy mystery, a light romance, or a great classic?
By Edward Nawotka The New York Review of Books has an intriguing essay by Tim Parks about the differences between the European and American sensibility in writing fiction, with a focus on the work of Swiss writer Peter Stamm and the American Jonathan Franzen: Parks begins… I’m English and live in Italy. During March, within two or three [...]
By Edward Nawotka Video and film is a tricky format, especially for book publishers who are working in the medium. When it comes to “enhancing e-books” publishers need to be careful. The enhancements shouldn’t interrupt the text or repeat it, but offer a lateral view of the subject at hand -- a genuine enhancement -- rather [...]
