Famous economist forgoes print in favor of ebook

hidari · 02-10-2011, 07:44 PM

Seemed a wee bit interesting.....

hthttp://thenextweb.com/media/2011/0...-edition/tp://

cfrizz · 02-10-2011, 08:00 PM

Here is the correct link.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/02/...print-edition/

hidari · 02-11-2011, 01:41 AM

Cheers for that..

JeremyR · 02-11-2011, 04:06 AM

Simple answer: Because it was not a book, but a long article...

soondai · 02-11-2011, 10:59 AM

right. but a lot of books are long articles that are puffed up and bloated until they are long enough to look respectable sitting on bookseller's shelf with a 26.99 price tag.

I actually read Cowen's blog daily and highly recommend it. Economics is at the heart of it, but books and food come up all the time.

I really hope there is a future for "singles." I know most of the ones that have come out so far have not gotten very favorable reviews. This one has actually sparked a fair amount of debate with various economists weighing in (Cowen invariably links to reviews and reactions to the book from his blog, whether they are favorable or not).

For those interested, he blogs at marginalrevolution.com. Has a co-blogger, but probably 80% of the posts are from him.

Namekuseijin · 02-11-2011, 11:33 AM

BTW, this led me thinking: do you guys think it's best to go to a site and download some article in ebook format or simply read html? I mean, html+css is a pretty powerful and flexible combo as far as visual formatting goes, why should I go through the trouble of downloading and then opening in a epub reader instead of simply read on the very page? Is page scrolling not as acceptable as page turning?

I'm amazed at how clean and accessible for reading on mobile devices Wordpress, for instance, has optimized all of its blogs using a custom html+css scheme.

ardeegee · 02-11-2011, 01:03 PM

For long articles (like this one, which at close to 25,000 words is around 60% longer than this guy's so-called "book") I prefer to copy them into an RTF file and read them from my ebook reader. For short stuff (up to a few thousand words) I just read it on-screen.

hidari · 02-11-2011, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soondai

right. but a lot of books are long articles that are puffed up and bloated until they are long enough to look respectable sitting on bookseller's shelf with a 26.99 price tag.

I actually read Cowen's blog daily and highly recommend it. Economics is at the heart of it, but books and food come up all the time.

I really hope there is a future for "singles." I know most of the ones that have come out so far have not gotten very favorable reviews. This one has actually sparked a fair amount of debate with various economists weighing in (Cowen invariably links to reviews and reactions to the book from his blog, whether they are favorable or not).

For those interested, he blogs at marginalrevolution.com. Has a co-blogger, but probably 80% of the posts are from him.

Yes, It is amazing how many books of fiction and non-fiction that are in the neighborhood of 300 pages could be reduced to 100 and actually be more effective and interesting. Many books are bloated warthogs... Hope the singles become popular as well...

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soondai Guru Posts: 672 Karma: 1109784 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: Paperwhite	right. but a lot of books are long articles that are puffed up and bloated until they are long enough to look respectable sitting on bookseller's shelf with a 26.99 price tag. I actually read Cowen's blog daily and highly recommend it. Economics is at the heart of it, but books and food come up all the time. I really hope there is a future for "singles." I know most of the ones that have come out so far have not gotten very favorable reviews. This one has actually sparked a fair amount of debate with various economists weighing in (Cowen invariably links to reviews and reactions to the book from his blog, whether they are favorable or not). For those interested, he blogs at marginalrevolution.com. Has a co-blogger, but probably 80% of the posts are from him.

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Namekuseijin affordable chipmunk Posts: 1,290 Karma: 9863855 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Brazil Device: Sony XPeria ZL, Kindle Paperwhite	BTW, this led me thinking: do you guys think it's best to go to a site and download some article in ebook format or simply read html? I mean, html+css is a pretty powerful and flexible combo as far as visual formatting goes, why should I go through the trouble of downloading and then opening in a epub reader instead of simply read on the very page? Is page scrolling not as acceptable as page turning? I'm amazed at how clean and accessible for reading on mobile devices Wordpress, for instance, has optimized all of its blogs using a custom html+css scheme.

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ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	For long articles (like this one, which at close to 25,000 words is around 60% longer than this guy's so-called "book") I prefer to copy them into an RTF file and read them from my ebook reader. For short stuff (up to a few thousand words) I just read it on-screen.

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