Myebook - get it out there! Does a new literacy call for a new book model? When I wrote The New Rules of Marketing & PR, I added the URLs of Web sites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube videos and other links at the bottom of the each page in case readers wanted to go to the sites I was discussing in the book. Many people commented that it was helpful, so I repeated in my new book World Wide Rave. But now I wonder. Could I have done more? Zak Nelson asks: "Why aren't books more like websites? Zak wrote to me while he was reading New Rules… at a cafe in Queen Anne in Seattle. "Sitting next to a guy pecking away at some code for a web 2.0 site he's working on," Zak wrote. Zak says there is a new literacy taking hold, and traditional book publishers aren't keeping up: "I'm a comics geek," he says. Similarly, people are becoming more literate in reading websites, and that neural reconfiguration may well be affecting how traditional books are read and sold (or, unsold as the case may be).
So what if a book read more like a website? Make your own book with Blurb. 10 Books that will Substitute A Computer Science Degree | Techoo. 11 Tools to Help You Save Sites for Reading Later - Mashable. Sometimes we discover interesting websites that we want to save to check out later because we're busy with other tasks. For such occasions, there is a new breed of browser addons, bookmarklets, and special bookmarking services available to help save those urls and retrieve them easily later. Here are 11 of them. Do you use tools like this, or do you prefer continuing to use normal browser bookmarking services like Delicious? Let us know in the comments. FriendFeed Read Later FriendFeed Read Later provides you with a 'later' button that you can use to save entries on FriendFeed for reading later.
Instapaper Instapaper provides a bookmarklet for saving sites for later reading. LaterLoop LaterLoop is just like Instapaper, perhaps the only difference being that LaterLoop provides you with a Firefox and Internet Explorer addon, in addition to the bookmarklet, which allows you to save links with keyboard shortcuts. LaterThis ListMixer PushPopURL Read It Later ReadBag Taboo Tark toread. WEbook.com - Book Publishing Companies - Publishing Books - WEbo. Classical Computer Science Texts. What Should I Read Next? Age of Conversation Storefront - Lulu.com.