http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/ Internet Marketing, Branding and Web Development for B2B Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:45:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/comment-page-1/#comment-411 brad Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:53:24 +0000 http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/books/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/#comment-411 Hi Olivia - if only the publishers would listen. Niels, that's a great point between information and ideas. I do think that's why books need to be read in linear fashion, though I never would have thought to express it like that. Perhaps that's why people bounce around on websites - people generally go to the web for information, not ideas (blogs may be an exception, at least some blogs). Hi Olivia – if only the publishers would listen. Niels, that’s a great point between information and ideas. I do think that’s why books need to be read in linear fashion, though I never would have thought to express it like that. Perhaps that’s why people bounce around on websites – people generally go to the web for information, not ideas (blogs may be an exception, at least some blogs).

]]> http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Niels Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:42:46 +0000 http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/books/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/#comment-410 Thank you. What a relief that you picked up on this. I couldn't agree more with you. What happens, I believe, is that there is a confusion between an idea and information. I saw the same thing happen when I was a college professor. When people spoke to me about online teaching, they focused on information transfer. That is not what teaching is about, as far as I am concerned. It is about developing ideas, in particular, teaching students to develop their own ideas (whether they want to or not). Books are the same for me. A book is about ideas, not about information. Information gets outdated, but ideas remain relevant for a much longer time. And an ideas needs time to develop, if it is worth developing that is. Thank you. What a relief that you picked up on this. I couldn’t agree more with you. What happens, I believe, is that there is a confusion between an idea and information. I saw the same thing happen when I was a college professor. When people spoke to me about online teaching, they focused on information transfer. That is not what teaching is about, as far as I am concerned. It is about developing ideas, in particular, teaching students to develop their own ideas (whether they want to or not). Books are the same for me. A book is about ideas, not about information. Information gets outdated, but ideas remain relevant for a much longer time. And an ideas needs time to develop, if it is worth developing that is.

]]> http://www.straightnorth.com/blog/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Olivia Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:11:02 +0000 http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/books/whats-with-the-busy-book-formats/#comment-409 I totally agree with you on this, Brad. It slows me down so much when there is so much going on on a page, but I didn't know how to put it into words! I totally agree with you on this, Brad. It slows me down so much when there is so much going on on a page, but I didn’t know how to put it into words!

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