{"id":2811,"date":"2010-06-21T13:23:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2010-06-21T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T13:23:06","slug":"the-kindle-as-illuminated-manuscript-the-readwrite-ebook-arrives-not-a-moment-too-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/the-kindle-as-illuminated-manuscript-the-readwrite-ebook-arrives-not-a-moment-too-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kindle as Illuminated Manuscript. The Read\/Write eBook Arrives, not a moment too soon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yay!<\/p>\n

I wrote a post a while ago – Reading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript<\/a> – that argued the role of annotation can be as important as primary content when it comes to reading, learning, and knowledge. Celebrate marginalia!<\/p>\n

I believe this is the future of digital publishing. Learn from open source. The idea of content lock down just makes no sense. Paper books don\u2019t have DRM. You can share them, write on them, cut bits out for your scrapbook and so on. But imagine if you could do all that digitally\u2026<\/p>\n

Why shouldn\u2019t books be a little more like Wikipedia and a bit less like a copy-protected CD?<\/p>\n

It might seem like the editable, annotatable, shareable book is a pirate\u2019s charter, but publishers have little choice but to adapt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems the adaptation is happening right now. This morning I came across this Steven B Johnson piece<\/a> in the New York Times about the latest Amazon Kindle functionality, with its new \u201cpopular highlights\u201d function. Users will be able to annotate the lines in a book they find most interesting. The idea of the book group just took a hit of crack. The world can now share thoughts on a manuscript. The opportunities for a social networking play should not be underestimated. If Amazon becomes a de facto standard location to annotate the written word, imagine the implications for universities, businesses and everybody. I see this as a big deal. Big enough that I now want a Kindle…\u00a0 Where’s that Kindle for Android<\/a> app, anyway?<\/p>\n

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Yay! I wrote a post a while ago – Reading is Writing: Illuminating The Digital Manuscript – that argued the role of annotation can be as important as primary content when it comes to reading, learning, and knowledge. Celebrate marginalia! I believe this is the future of digital publishing. Learn from open source. The idea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,219],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amazon","tag-kindle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-Jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}