Knovel Blogs
The Knovel Blogs at are all about sharing ideas on engineering information and productivity. You can find things as diverse as an interview with a weatherman to the history of the space shuttle. If you are an engineer or have an interest in engineering, Knovel is a fun place to visit. Neil Schulman, Editor in […]
Amazon and the iPad
Amazon’s profit for the fourth quarter of 2009 was $384 million on revenue of $9.52 billion. That is more than $10 million of products shipped each and every day. Retail sales in total in the U.S. was roughly one trillion dollars in the third quarter of 2009. Just 3.5% of that — $35 billion — […]
Electronic Books
While e-book technology is racing forward, the publishers are stuck in the past. Several of them have announced that they will make new best sellers available on e-books only after the physical book has been for sale for at least several months. They think that if a hot new book comes out you will go […]
e-philanthropy
There are so many ways to help those in need. I wrote a story called e-philanthropy just over ten years ago — posted below. The number of developments on the Internet since then would have been unfathomable back then. I remember Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley giving a presentation about eBay back then and have […]
Nook Epilogue
I got “Kindlized” in March 2008. Two years later I got “nooked”. The “e-book” idea — replacing the paper book with something electronic — has been around for three decades but it is really taking hold now. Over the years there have been various “e-book readers” introduced and now we are seeing a flood of […]
