Tag Archives: book

I sometimes check a stock market page to see if my retirement funds are increasing or decreasing. The page offers the basic data on the markets, but also news of the day that may be influencing the markets and specific … Continue reading →

I appreciate anyone making the effort to read what I write. Obviously, my blogs tend to focus on educational issues that overlap with the use of technology. As I examine the frequency with which my content is viewed, I have … Continue reading →

Librarian and blogger Doug Johnson has a new post on the future of ebooks and concludes that digital books are the future. I have tried to make this same point multiple times mostly challenging the argument that comprehension is better … Continue reading →

A recent post from The Commons proposed that universities might drastically reduce the student cost of textbooks if the institutions funded faculty members to write textbooks. I wrote a couple of textbooks for Houghton Mifflin that eventually ended up with … Continue reading →

We just finished an update to our integrating technology textbook. In addition to new content, we transitioned our Kindle book from reflowable to fixed format. This distinction is explained in another post and the fixed format is argued to be … Continue reading →

  A recent EdSurge post attempts to explain resistance to digital textbooks and lists four “issues”. As the author of a digital textbook, I feel the need to respond. 1. Digital textbooks do not offer lifetime access. – First, this is not … Continue reading →

I decided to research the advantages and disadvantages of owning and borrowing Kindle books. I am interested because I publish a Kindle book and also because I purchase an average of about one Kindle book a month. As a reader Amazon … Continue reading →

I have been trying to comment on at least post from some author each day this month in a personal effort to model and contribute to the interactivity of online writing. Through Twitter, I encountered a link to a blog … Continue reading →

Here is another idea for professional development via reading. Too many professionals read content that they agree with. They may ask colleagues for a recommendation and someone says “here is something you will like”. If much “development” from such experiences … Continue reading →

Extended essay from The Economist on the future of the book. The essay can be either read or listened to.