Comments on: Quick notes:EZ Reader Pro review; NPR story on ereaders; Amazon’s bestselling books; European Commission “reflection” document on copyright http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/quick-notesez-reader-pro-review-npr-story-on-ereaders-amazons-bestselling-books-european-commission-reflection-document-on-copyright/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:30:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/quick-notesez-reader-pro-review-npr-story-on-ereaders-amazons-bestselling-books-european-commission-reflection-document-on-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-1152143 Chris Meadows Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:16:45 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=35314#comment-1152143 Yeah, and the idea that we are somehow being "trained" to read in a different way and therefore writers will have to write a different kind of story. Um, what kinds of story have we been reading so far, again? Yeah, and the idea that we are somehow being “trained” to read in a different way and therefore writers will have to write a different kind of story.

Um, what kinds of story have we been reading so far, again?

]]> By: karen wester newton http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/quick-notesez-reader-pro-review-npr-story-on-ereaders-amazons-bestselling-books-european-commission-reflection-document-on-copyright/comment-page-1/#comment-1152113 karen wester newton Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:58:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=35314#comment-1152113 Assuming the NPR story you refer to is this one (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529), I am disappointed they did not actually ask someone's opinion who had USED an eReader! Grossman speaks of them "scrolling." Really? What does he think the Next Page button does? This seems to be a common failing in people who write about ebooks and eReaders. They ask folks who know a lot about the old way of doing something what they think about the new way. Assuming the NPR story you refer to is this one (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529), I am disappointed they did not actually ask someone’s opinion who had USED an eReader! Grossman speaks of them “scrolling.” Really? What does he think the Next Page button does?

This seems to be a common failing in people who write about ebooks and eReaders. They ask folks who know a lot about the old way of doing something what they think about the new way.

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