“We are announcing this morning an important development at Newsweek and The Daily Beast,” Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Newsweek Daily Beast Company, wrote today. “Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the United States will be our Dec. 31 issue. Meanwhile, Newsweek will expand its rapidly growing tablet and online presence, as well as its successful global partnerships and events business.”
glebisIn an acknowledgment of the realities of the digital age — and of competition from the Web site Wikipedia — Encyclopaedia Britannica will focus primarily on its online encyclopedias and educational curriculum for schools. The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds and includes new entries on global warming and the Human Genome Project.
Дэн Франклин, редактор цифрового направления Random House Group UK, рассказал о проблемах цифровой литературы, поделился идеями и показал успешные примеры зарубежных разработок.
Couldn’t be more timely:
…already today, as the contemporary mode of knowledge-production demonstrates, the book is an obsolete mediation between two different card-filing systems. For everything essential is found in the note boxes of the researcher who writes it, and the reader who studies it assimilates it into his own note file.
Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße, 1928
