Comments on: iPhones, Teenagers, and The Future of Reading https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:30:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: The Kindle Cometh? | Exact Editions | Blog https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173270 Thu, 18 Jul 2013 15:30:32 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173270 […] is a hint that it will carry magazines. Some of the issues are discussed by Peter Brantley and Booksquare. If Crave is right about the E-ink platform, we have reservations about its chances. No colour? […]

]]> By: Kindling eBooks - Tools of Change for Publishing https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173124 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:21:26 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173124 […] Booksquare today had an interesting muse about what makes the ebook experience potentially viable, and it is not the kind of DRM-laden entrapment that many vendors are providing now. Rather, the model should be that developed in other content areas, such as video. [Start] with the expectation that media — whatever kind — will be accessible on demand. For my money, no matter what cool this or that is launched by major entertainment media, it’s the YouTube model that exemplifies today’s environment. Love it, hate it, don’t understand it, YouTube works. You don’t have to do anything special to access programming. This “just works” ability is what today’s consumer desires … and it’s the base level expectation of today’s youth. […]

]]> By: Kindling Openness and Impact - Tools of Change for Publishing https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173123 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:21:04 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-173123 […] finally there are two other issues: first, as Booksquare (among others) notes, Apple’s iPhone is really, really close. It wouldn’t take […]

]]> By: Jason https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-172893 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:48:33 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-172893 re: Kassia Krozser I was wondering if i could use your article for my school IES project also known as (intergrated enquiry studies) I”m planning to do a study on teenagers and iphones and i was wondering if you could give me some background information about you for me to include in my essay many thanks!

]]> By: Heather S. Ingemar https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-167678 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:10:50 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-167678 I think compatability/standardization is the main hurdle ebooks have to (and should) overcome. It’s why they aren’t a huge portion of the industry.

Now the thing about teens — I think that if we could get them interested in ebooks through their availability, and the fact that they can be read on their gizmos, there’s a potentially lucrative market there. Probably 90% of teens have cell phones. Some of them even have handheld devices like PDAs (which are great for ebooks), and even more of them have stuff like the iPod. If the companies would get on the bandwagon, and do like you said, promoting ebooks in a format compatible with their machine (heck, why not ALL other machines!), they could really capitalize on that.

Great post, and awesome blog. 🙂

All the best,
Heather S. Ingemar

]]> By: Greg https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166979 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:44:53 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166979 Interesting read that I just stumbled on…

This market will be interesting to watch as heavy hitters like Microsoft and Amazon missed the iPod boat. I don’t think we will see this happen on “ebooks.” If the Kindle starts to take off, I think a lot more competitors will emerge and we will not have a single company owning 60% of the market.

However, to make it truly marketable a couple of things will have to change:

DRM – more and more people are refusing to accept DRM. They want to ability to transport data across multiple platforms in a standardized format.

Price – People are simply not willing to pay as much for digital content as they would for the “real thing.”

Publisher acceptance – Publishers, like the RIAA, will extort a high price for digital content and will try and shape the market to best meet their pricing models.

And right on with who we should be watching…14 years olds are really the first “all digital” generation and they will certainly shape the future sooner then our generation did.

Good post!

]]> By: Stephen J. Gertz https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166888 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:35:42 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166888 s book club aside, Americans — particularly young Americans — appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining. At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like math and science is dipping for students whose access to books is limited, and employers are rating workers deficient in basic writing skills." It's not a pretty picture. While there is some disagreement amongst various researchers about the study's conclusions, the consensus seems to be that young Americans, while they may be reading online for various reasons, they are not reading for fun. From my perspective, it is difficult to read purely for enjoyment on a digital device - it is either too cumbersome, the screen to small or, significantly, hard on the retinas. For ease on the eyes and utility, portability, and zero energy use (the "green" way to read) there will never be a substitute for the good old fashioned bound book. Sometimes low-tech is the best tech.]]> Kassia:

Of related interest to this posting, you and your readers may want to check out an article in today’s (Nov. 19, 2007) NY Times titled: STUDY LINKS DROP IN TEST SCORES TO A DECLINE IN TIME SPENT READING (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/arts/19nea.html?em&ex=1195621200&en=bc01c3c505ea455e&ei=5087).

“arry Potter, James Patterson and Oprah Winfrey’s book club aside, Americans — particularly young Americans — appear to be reading less for fun, and as that happens, their reading test scores are declining. At the same time, performance in other academic disciplines like math and science is dipping for students whose access to books is limited, and employers are rating workers deficient in basic writing skills.”

It’s not a pretty picture. While there is some disagreement amongst various researchers about the study’s conclusions, the consensus seems to be that young Americans, while they may be reading online for various reasons, they are not reading for fun.

From my perspective, it is difficult to read purely for enjoyment on a digital device – it is either too cumbersome, the screen to small or, significantly, hard on the retinas.

For ease on the eyes and utility, portability, and zero energy use (the “green” way to read) there will never be a substitute for the good old fashioned bound book.

Sometimes low-tech is the best tech.

]]> By: iPhones, teenagers, future of reading at Tobias Buckell Online https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166882 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:58:01 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166882 […] has a good article that summarizes my obsession with the iPhone as the perfect e-reader platform if someone would get […]

]]> By: bowerbird https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166876 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:49:46 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166876 the s.d.k. comes out in february.
then you’ll have your e-book app.

whether or not you’ll have the content
that you want, especially if it’s from a
“major publisher”, is another question.

but have you seen the trash they are
putting out lately for their customers?

-bowerbird

]]> By: Alex Gorelik https://booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166871 Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:18:29 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/iphones-teenagers-and-the-future-of-reading/#comment-166871 I found it a wonderful synchronicity that on the same day that Houghton Mifflin announced that it had signed with Mobifusion to deliver electronic versions of its books to cell phones (November 5) Google announced that it was releasing Android – an open source mobile phone operating system. Considering how much effort Google has put into digitizing books – there are bound to be some great synergies possible.

Only a couple weeks earlier, Hachette Book group adopted the open standards – International Digital Publishing Forum’s file format standard for e-books, making it the first trade publisher to adopt the standard.

An open mobile platform and an open standard for e-books… The future of mobile reading looks bright.

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