Thursday, March 19, 2015

A Different Way to Research

So I'm excited for this assignment to make an e-bibliography; I honestly have never don research like this before. I feel like it's going to help me put all my thoughts together and help me to make sense of my chapters that I am writing for our class ebook "Becoming Digiliterary."
So here is what I've found!

E-bibliography:

Don't Judge a Device by its Cover

Tweethis: Although Amazon's Kindle appearance is basic, the simplicity of the device revives the reader's reading experience.

Social Graph:
I spoke to my friends mom that I met last night at dinner. I explained our ebook project and her husband piped in real quick "Oh my wife is an avid reader we both have Kindles." She is an ASL teacher and has helped ASL students complete an associates about 16 times. So she does have some credentials. However, she remarked that she recognized that she stopped reading for a while and it was because of her Kindle. She said that the Kindle is just not the same thing as books.

New Media: 
Kindle Vs. Kindle App on Android

Kids and the Best Tablets
http://heavy.com/tech/2015/03/top-best-tablets-for-kids-children-with-wifi-reviews/

Kindle Singles: A New Form of Writing/Reading 
http://www.tylershores.com/2012/03/08/kindle-singles-a-new-genre/

The Science of Sharing 
http://authornews.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-science-of-sharing/

Kindle PaperWhite Vs. Nook
http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/amazon-kindle-paperwhite-vs-nook-simple-touch-with-glowlight

Social Networks: 

Twitter hashtag search for #kindlevsipad
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23kindlevsipad&src=typd

Traditional Scholarly Sources: 

Reading Books in the Dark
http://www.tylershores.com/tag/ebooks/

Amazon Kindle App and the Blind
http://search.proquest.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/docview/1348728211

Children's Books on Kindle App
http://web.b.ebscohost.com.erl.lib.byu.edu/ehost/detail/detail?sid=0c01dc63-9b3d-47e5-9363-c570a5ef80b0%40sessionmgr112&vid=0&hid=110&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=82107618

Preserving the Mockingbirds of Ebooks

The sample option available on Amazon's massive digital library that can be transferred directly to our Kindle from the comfort of our own homes will change the way writers write and how readers read. 

Social Graph:

No Samples in Some Countries
https://kdp.amazon.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=827184&#827184

Customer Discussions: Kindle Samples
http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=TxZ07WXZE7LWEX

New Media:

Kindle Book Samples
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/28/kindle_for_the_web/

Book Vs. Ebook (talks a little about sampling towards end)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlp_K0ww2FQ

Kindle Fire vs. Ipod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryat012X8Qc

Social Networks:

So i posted on my Facebook in regards of Kindle sampling, but until now I haven't received more than a few likes... I will edit this post as soon as I get some responses. 

Blog Post on Kindle Samples Save Money
http://www.jamierubin.net/2010/09/24/kindle-samples-save-money/
Traditional Scholarly Sources: 

Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing: Sampling 
https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A25WS075EUM6NF

Reading and Attention Spans
http://www.tylershores.com/2013/10/30/attention-spans/

So these are a few of the sources I have found. I still need to head to the library and check out some printed text, but we are focusing more on the digital aspect of literature,  so why not focus the research more on a digital platforms? 

4 comments:

  1. I think your conversation with the whole ASL thing is an interesting perspective! I think it's interesting how you brought up her saying that it just isn't the same as books, because as we transition that seems to be the main thing people bring up, and yet ereading is increasingly growing and doesn't seem to be slowing down.

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  2. I think your conversation with the whole ASL thing is an interesting perspective! I think it's interesting how you brought up her saying that it just isn't the same as books, because as we transition that seems to be the main thing people bring up, and yet ereading is increasingly growing and doesn't seem to be slowing down.

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  3. It's really hard to get responses from social media, I know! Just like, keep posting a bunch of different questions in a bunch of different places and you'll begin to see some results!

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  4. It's really hard to get responses from social media, I know! Just like, keep posting a bunch of different questions in a bunch of different places and you'll begin to see some results!

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