December 26, 2025

Link: Most Downloaded Books from the Library for August 2011 via OverDrive

Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy novels took over the top spots on the adult fiction eBook and audiobook lists in July, with “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” remaining the most downloaded digital book on OverDrive-powered library websites.

Link: Meet Marshall McLuhan-Futurist via WNYC’s Fishko Files

The Global Village. Alienation. Connection. All were considered by McLuhan. What would he think of Facebook? Twitter? Google+?

Link: Why Content Isn’t King

In fact, the dirty little secret of the media industry is that content aggregators, not content creators, have long been the overwhelming source of value creation.

Ebook Sanity

Treating the digital like the physical is insanity of the highest order. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: publishers that restrict content in an attempt to control it in the same way as they can control a print book are fighting a losing battle.