With the appearance on the market (sort of) this week of the Kindle Fire ($199), Amazon’s competitor to Barnes & Noble’s Nook ($249), Sony’s eReader ($149), and Apple’s iPad 2 ($499), it seems like a good moment to step back and take stock of what we can expect from the tablet makers in the coming year or two and what the…
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The Perfect Storm Gathers Strength
It’s not really news that electronic publishing is wrecking havoc on the traditional publishing industry. In fact, it’s such old news, that I feel a little funny even writing a post about epublishing. But this past weekend, it became clear to me just how doomed academic publishers are. What happened to finally convince me that…
Coding in History Education
My colleague Fred Gibbs recently posted an excellent overview of some of the issues surrounding coding in history education. To teach coding or to not teach coding is an issue I’ve wrestled with for years and have, thus far anyway, always come down on the side of not teaching it. For one thing, I’m not…
Writing a Book in Public
Yesterday I began a new blog site called Human Trafficking in Historical Perspective. This site is the online research and writing space I’m going to use for my next book project — a project still in its early days mode. For a long time now I’ve been thinking about what happens when the entire scholarly…