Thursday, October 7, 2010

The eReader Incompetence Checklist

Satellite — Craig Mod: "The bottom line is: most of our ereading experiences are pretty bad. And many of us don't realize it. iPad is still a baby — barely six months old! — so we're clearly still in a developmental and experimentation phase. But I feel like many readers, authors, editors and publishers simply don't know how to assess their digital reading experience. I always like to follow up schpeels with URLs, so consider this the followup URL to my ereader schpeel if we've ever met in person. In order to assess something we need a rubric. Criteria. Standards. Metrics. A baseline. So let's set one together. ..."