A new study by European researchers found that recollection of plot points and story lines were “significantly” worse for readers who read on a Kindle versus a paperback book, the Guardian reports.
Full Article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/19/readers-absorb-less-kindles-paper-study-plot-ereader-digitisation
Is The Print Portfolio Making a Comeback In the Age of The Internet?
This article published by PetaPixel, shows how photographer Erick Almas is trying to stand out from the crowd by coming back to the print portfolio. He recognizes that a print portfolio builds a deeper connection than something seen on a screen. He also explains that he had to make different portfolios depending on the media he is presenting his work.
Gannon Burgett. (July 7th, 2014). Is The Print Portfolio Making a Comeback In the Age of The Internet? Published on PetaPixel. Retrieved from: http://petapixel.com/2014/07/07/print-portfolio-making-comeback-age-internet
comScore presents the 2014 Canada Digital Future in Focus, where info about how the prevailing trends in web usage, online video, digital advertising, mobile, social media and e-commerce are defining the current Canadian marketplace and what these trends mean for the year ahead.
See the white paper on: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2014/2014-Canada-Digital-Future-in-Focus
Understanding the Big Trends of Global Digital Market (September 17, 2013)
Speaker: Enrico Verhulst, VP Technical Account Management EMEA, comScore Europe
Event: IBC Connected World
At this introductory session, Enrico Verhulst presents the shifting patterns of internet usage, the factors driving growth in internet consumption around the world and the implications for the content industry…
See the presentation on: http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Presentations-and-Whitepapers/2013/Understanding-the-Big-Trends-of-Global-Digital-Market
Pop up books promoter and collector article
For decades the country’s leading producer of the books, he (Waldo Hunt) is widely credited with having taken a long dormant, long marginalized, and long unprofitable publishing genre and making it a thriving, ubiquitous industry…
Fox Margalit. (2009, November 26). Waldo Hunt, King of the Pop-Up Book, Dies at 88. The New York Times. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/arts/26hunt.html?_r=0
A good example of an illustrated online comic. Updated every week.
http://existentialcomics.com/comic/35
I couldn’t find any link that explains who is doing this project.
I created a pinterest board showing some images talking about illustrated books, digital vs print, and some other things related to the research. See the board: http://www.pinterest.com/soyrodo/digitalbook-studies/
Some images:
Follow the Digital Book Studies from Rudolf on Pinterest.
Today, visualization has the potential to become a mass medium. Engagement — grabbing and keeping the attention of a viewer — is the key to its broader success. The clearest, most precise graphic in the world communicates nothing if nobody looks at it.
Viegas Fernanda, Wattenberg Martin. (2011) How to make data look sexy. CNN. Retrieved from: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/04/19/sexy.data/index.html
More than eight in ten parents (84%) will splash out £243 on electronic gifts for their kids this Christmas – almost a fifth (16%) will spend more than £400…
uSwitch. (2013, November 25)Parents will spend over £3 billion on tech gadgets for their kids this Christmas. Retrieved from: http://www.uswitch.com/media-centre/2013/11/parents-will-spend-over-3-billion-on-tech-gadgets-for-their-kids-this-christmas/
LeapFrog Enterprises (LF) sells educational entertainment products for children, most notably the LeapPad family of children’s tablets. Parents are spending more money than ever on technology devices for their children, and LF has benefited greatly from this surge in demand.
David Trainer(2013) LeapFrog Looks Cheap. Forbes. Retrieved from:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2013/12/13/leapfrog-looks-cheap/
Rob Grossberg, Co-Founder and CEO of TreSensa, Inc, is no stranger to HTML5 games. Tresensa has many HTML5 games in their own portfolio. He shares his thoughts about how HTML5 could help indie developers.
Grossberg, (2014). HTML5 as another avenue for indies. Game sauce. Retrieved from: http://gamesauce.org/news/2014/06/27/html5-as-another-avenue-for-indies/
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