Ebooks
There’s a wealth of good articles trying to predict the future of reading. We’ll focus on Kevin Kelly’s latest post on publishing – What Books Will Become – which tries to take the logical steps beyond the Kindle and social reading revolutions to imagine where the “book” is going (social reading here enveloping social highlighting, bookmarking, commenting, additions/corrections). We also link to “trusty Kevin Kelly reverberator” Seth Godin and to other posts.
The question in this article is: “who said that Strategy and Execution must be dealt with separately”? They don’t. It reminded us of the old Value vs. Growth debate, to which Buffett always replied that growth is a component of value. In fact, we probably wouldn’t point readers to this article if it wasn’t for the link to a free, 143-page e-book with a selection of the best Harvard Business Review articles on Strategy and Execution. Enjoy!
Free e-book organized by Seth Godin sounds a lot like the Red Balloon experience we just discussed on Dec. 6th: it’s less about advertising the authors’ work than it’s about discovering ways that content gets disseminated online – how does an e-book become “viral”? Interesting experiment, so-so book.
