The Future Of Publishing Blog by Thad McIlroy

Shh! eBooks and the Quiet Conspiracy against Public Libraries

February 23rd, 2011

Shh! eBooks and the Quiet Conspiracy against Public Libraries

Last evening I wrote to a colleague who runs a regional association of trade book publishers. I thought I would share the letter: Hi xxx, I thought of you when I read this just now in today’s Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160421561955208.html I think it’s a very good article just because it presents the unvarnished truth…

February 11th, 2011

Think Good Thoughts About Adobe Acrobat

(The title of this post is inspired by one of my favorite books of cartoons by one of my favorite New Yorker cartoonists, George Booth: Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat.) I’ve been using Adobe’s Acrobat technology forever, and I’m a huge fan of the underlying technology. The user-facing software, however, stinks. It’s the same problem that you find in Microsoft…