Comments on: Books as naked conversations

By: Bob Uva

Bob Uva — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:20:15 +0000

O’Reilly Publishing, the premier technical book publisher, has been forward-thinking in this area for years. They started their Safari service for reading books online, maintaining an online bookshelf, allowing public comments on book sections, etc. Having an army of early adopter geeks has helped them because we love to test the waters with new technology.

By: Zvi Landsman

Zvi Landsman — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:02:30 +0000

Amazing thinking-outside-the-box. Unfortunately, I suspect it will be slow to catch on, as revolutionary ideas usually are.

By: Amy Vercruysse

Amy Vercruysse — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:28:49 +0000

Very interesting indeed! And how about if the readers and other experts in the field are also allowed to insert their own opinions, comments, etc? There’s really no limit is there?

By: Adam Darowski

Adam Darowski — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:19:38 +0000

Sounds like the printed book could then be much like printing the Word doc of your company’s business plan. It is a physical copy of that version of an evolving document. Some books do this with updated editions, but this would be a much more dynamic process. Would be a huge help for schools that get stuck studying from books that still contain the USSR.

By: Up and Running

Up and Running — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:31:36 +0000

Books as Naked Conversations

Following up on the release of the Kindle — I posted on this last week — I like John Jantsch’s take on this over at Duct Tape Marketing. He called it Books as naked conversations.
… the point that I haven’t hear enough dis…

By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:21:53 +0000

I think that authors are missing out if they are only using traditional methods of getting their books published.
Ebooks are only in their infancy.