Trey Radcliff has an excellent piece over at GigaOm discussing why e-books will be bigger than expected. I agree with his analysis. I also agree with the statistics outlined in this article, Apple to Give Lesson on Textbooks: By 2020 digital textbooks and learning content will represent more than 50% of the overall textbook market….

“Students don’t buy a copy of the book—they buy lifetime access. The plan is for the textbook to serve not only as a reference for the class but as a pointer to further knowledge. Instead of publishing revised editions, Savkar’s team will keep the book up to date.” — A New Chapter for E-Books Imagine never…

“Students don’t buy a copy of the book—they buy lifetime access. The plan is for the textbook to serve not only as a reference for the class but as a pointer to further knowledge. Instead of publishing revised editions, Savkar’s team will keep the book up to date.” — A New Chapter for E-Books Imagine…

“There is nothing permanent except change.” –Hereclitus The pace of change is only accelerating yet, surprisingly, we don’t often see it–even when it is staring us in the face. To wit, yesterday, WellPoint announced it was going to “hire” Watson (IBM’s supercomputer) to help its doctors make better and faster medical diagnosis. One page later…

“We’re going to have to make a lot of different assumptions,” says the head of one large publishing house in this article discussing the imminent demise of Border’s — one of the world’s large bookstores. The individual is, of course, correct but the real question is why he (or she) didn’t begin questioning his assumptions…

“We’re going to have to make a lot of different assumptions,” says the head of one large publishing in this article discussing the imminent demise of Border’s — one of the world’s large bookstores. The individual is, of course, correct but the real question is why he (or she) didn’t begin questioning his assumptions years…

Recently, I was on a flight and as we were descending the pilot's voice came over the intercom and, tongue-in-cheek, he asked everyone to "turn off their books." It was a funny comment but it does hint at a broader sea change — more and more people are reading books on their Kindles and iPad's….

As a leader you must nurture an organization that can rapidly adapt. Unlearning can help. Unlearning can also help you innovate. In fact, unlearning can even assure you and your organization survive. After years of work, I am pleased to report that I have now developed both a half and a full-day seminar designed to help organizations…

Seth Godin has an interesting post on the future of libraries in which he suggests that libraries' survival depends on training people to take intellectual initiative.   It's an interesting idea and I encourage librarians to consider instructing people in the art of unlearning as one way to do this. For example, librarians could introduce…

There is much the newspaper and publishing industry needs to unlearn — as I have explained before (here and here). Now, fellow author and change agent, Seth Godin, has published a piece entitled The Magic of Dynamic Pricing in which he criticizes the publishing industry for attempts to delay the release of new book titles…