Today’s links of interest:
- Technology Predictions Are Mostly Bunk
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments, said Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus in 10 A.D. - Paperback Nostalgia: High Culture at Low Cost
Mark Bertils looks at the current problems facing Canada’s McNally Robinson through the lens of other large (and defunct) independent booksellers. - News flash: the book isn’t dead – yet
We’d change this headline to The book isn’t dead, it’s evolving. - Library of Congress Puts Thousands of Historic Books Online
Very cool. - First Look at Blio, Ray Kurzweil’s Tablet-Friendly Ebook Format
Hmm, if it’s readable (hard to tell in screen shots), it’s a contender. - It’s not the rats you need to worry about
Seth Godin on customers who switch, why, and what happens next. Not necessarily in that order. - Traveling Home and Baffling Terror
Seriously, this is the kind of randomness that reduces confidence in the people who are supposedly keeping us safe. - Alcott: ‘Not The Little Woman You Thought She Was’
National Public Radio profile of Louisa May Alcott.
