17/01/08

Apt’s links for January 14th through January 16th

• The Passion of Steve Jobs - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - â��It doesnâ��t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people donâ��t read anymore,â�� Jobs said. So that’s that. Publishing is over. There is no future of books.
• Battle ahead for ‘cigarette pack’ books | News | Guardian Unlimited Books -
• Oh no, the R-word index is back - the johnson banks thought for the week - Oh look. Florence Nightingale and E Tufte, sitting in a tree….
• Mini-Review: Amazon Kindle vs. Sony Reader - (37signals) - Head to head!
• And Another Thing: Guy Hands, EMI, Robbie Williams and Monty Python - “Being big is in fact nothing but pain. You have large corporate overheads which mean that you must release a huge number of records you know will never pay back purely in order to give your staff something to do.” Via Russell

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Links.