My friend Karen posted some thoughts on Twitter about ebooks and readers. Been thinking about how e-books/Ipad exclude poorer readers. Continued…. Folks with literacy/soc. justice concerns should keep zines/broadsheet etc. in mind. If medium is message, cost of readers excludes many. It would easy to dismiss Karen’s thoughts because of her history with paper but [...]
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Selling out for the holidays
I have gotten a lot of feedback for my Christmas Gift Guides. It seems to fall into three categories: People selling their own books/gadgets/junk who are link baiting. People accusing me of selling out to rampant commercialism. People who are happy for the ideas. Let me explain the context that they are created in. Wendy [...]
