Comments on: Ebooks and science: Livestreamed tonight http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/09/20/ebooks-and-science-livestreamed-tonight/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daily Digest of Ebook News - September 20th, 2011 | Ebook Friendly http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/09/20/ebooks-and-science-livestreamed-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-62361 Daily Digest of Ebook News - September 20th, 2011 | Ebook Friendly Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:58:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5000#comment-62361 [...] Ebooks and science: Livestreamed tonight – DISCOVER Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is A Planet of Viruses. His website is [...] [...] [...] Ebooks and science: Livestreamed tonight – DISCOVER Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist. He is the author of ten books, the most recent of which is A Planet of Viruses. His website is [...] [...]

]]> By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/09/20/ebooks-and-science-livestreamed-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-62350 David B. Benson Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:42:45 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5000#comment-62350 Books? You mean like printed on paper and bound? The is the 21st century! Books?

You mean like printed on paper and bound?

The is the 21st century!

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]]> By: Alex Samaras http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/09/20/ebooks-and-science-livestreamed-tonight/comment-page-1/#comment-62307 Alex Samaras Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:20:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5000#comment-62307 I don't know how related it is, but any chance you could publicly suggest that journal publishers, such as PNAS, Royal Society Publishing, Nature, PLoS, etc. etc. consider offering not only PDF versions of their files electronically, but reflowable text versions as well for reading on devices like the Kindle, where reading PDFs is uncomfortable? I once tweeted to PNAS about it and got a reply that it was an interesting idea worth looking into. Surely I can't be the only one interested in reading scientific papers easily on my Kindle. If it is in line with your ideas and fits the content of the livestream, I would love to hear it suggested that not only eBooks but eJournalArticles (for lack of a better term) would be a wonderful thing. :) I don’t know how related it is, but any chance you could publicly suggest that journal publishers, such as PNAS, Royal Society Publishing, Nature, PLoS, etc. etc. consider offering not only PDF versions of their files electronically, but reflowable text versions as well for reading on devices like the Kindle, where reading PDFs is uncomfortable?

I once tweeted to PNAS about it and got a reply that it was an interesting idea worth looking into. Surely I can’t be the only one interested in reading scientific papers easily on my Kindle. If it is in line with your ideas and fits the content of the livestream, I would love to hear it suggested that not only eBooks but eJournalArticles (for lack of a better term) would be a wonderful thing. :)

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