Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing

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The study of war is the study of life, because war is life in the rawest sense. It is death, fear, power, love, adrenaline, sacrifice, glory, and the will to survive. Because of the detail and analytics about traditional publishing, this is a book I have already recommended to many eBook-centric and digital-only indie authors looking to understand from across the divide that still exists between traditional publishing and the self-publishing communities. War is unquestionably mankind at his worst. Yet, paradoxically, it is in war that men — individual men — often show the very best of themselves. War is often the result of greed, stupidity, or depravity. But in it, men are often brave, loyal, and selfless. BookWars Bookwars Directed by Jason Rosette". www.nypress.com. Archived from the original on 6 June 2011 . Retrieved 12 January 2022.

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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram.One of the greatest fighter pilot instructors who ever lived made his mark not in the air, but on the ground. Boyd, a master strategist and thinker, essentially reinvented our understanding of maneuver warfare. (His plans were used for the overwhelming victory in the First Gulf War.) The lessons in this book are incredibly valuable for anyone fighting against a bureaucracy, against inertia, against doubters and ass-kissers. It’s considered a classic and read by most strategic thinkers across the armed forces today for a reason. This is a post about the canon of books about war. Each book is about a different civilization, a different set of tactics, a different cause. But timeless themes always emerge. The lessons are always there. They do not — despite what the History Channel and school teachers try to make you think — pertain to flanking movements, or dates, or locations. I don’t really know those things. What’s the point? What matters is what we can take from them and apply to our own lives and society. In Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing, John B. Thompson takes the reader on a wild and exciting ride exploring the changes that have turned book publishing on its head over the last 30 years, with the development of many new technologies that readers may have come to take for granted or never considered.

Again, casual assumptions might have been that these trade publishers should have seen the digital disruption in scholarly publishing during the ’90s and moved more rapidly to rethink their business models. Thompson’s book explains some of the initial paralysis, which is all the more reason why I see it as a worthwhile title for inclusion in those academic library collections supporting graduate programs in either publishing or library science.The Liberator by Alex Kershaw.Col. Felix Sparks (later to be a Brigadier General) lands in Sicily in the first European invasion and makes it all the way to the gates of Dachau. He basically saw the entire trajectory of the Allied fight and victory over the Axis powers in WWII and this book is required reading for that reason. It gives you a full sense of just how awful the fighting in WWII really was and the quiet heroes who did it. Along with the other WWII books mentioned here and below, I recommend Ken Burns’ documentary The War, if only because it is largely based on these books and gives you a sense of the whole picture. The filmmaker had by now spent nearly three years in San Francisco, endeavoring to complete BookWars without having received any grants or external funding. A grant administrator from The Pacific Pioneer Fund explained that, while he considered BookWars to be a worthy and compelling project, he felt that the filmmaker “would have to be a genius to pull it off” (funding was denied). A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo.Considered one of the definitive memoirs of the Vietnam War, it is, “Simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them.” He was well aware that his job was to kill as many people as possible and he tells this to the reader, who needs to know it. His observations are jarring and uncomfortable. “I had seen pigs eating napalm-charred corpses — a memorable sight, pigs eating roast people.” Wow.

An audible university? The emerging role of podcasts, audiobooks and text to speech technology in research should be taken seriously BookWars: Filmcritic.com Movie Review". Archived from the original on 2006-10-23 . Retrieved 2009-09-24. Christopher Null/Filmcritic.comIn total, production of BookWars had taken five years and 20,000 miles of driving across the United States to complete.

What It Is Like To Go To War by Karl Marlantes.Read this book if you’re ready to have myths of war destroyed for you. A Yale and Oxford grad is dropped into Vietnam. There he is awarded two Purple Hearts and multiple other medals for bravery and leadership. In this book, you can actually watch as he struggles with the very human impulses to rationalize, glamorize, and justify what he was forced to do in those jungles. Yet he doesn’t — he is honest and introspective and gives us one of the most unique documents of combat and the mind of war ever written. (The essay Why Men Love War— also about Vietnam — is worth reading for similar reasons.) A good mix of the specific timeline of digital publishing histories as well as interesting tidbits about the history of printing, orality and overall written communication Se trata de una obra panorámica de lo acaecido a la industria editorial producto de la revolución tecnológica, del paradigma digital. Libro publicado por Trama editorial.Book Review: Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women by Amy Sue Bix The Savior Generals: How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost by Victor Davis Hanson. This book tells of five different generals, each who came in and saved a war that was otherwise likely to be lost. Those generals are Themistocles, Belisarius, Sherman, Ridgway (in Korea), and Petraeus (in Iraq). This could be cut into a third and still deliver its message. Much of the history cited are well-known and unnecessary, like how books were published, oral tradition of stories, founding of tech giants, ebooks, audiobooks, iTunes. A simple line description would suffice. Data is dated, some dead.