Tuesday, October 07, 2008

The Future of Reading - Part II

"Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers" is the front-page headline of the Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, issue of The New York Times. It is the second installment in the paper's "Future of Reading" series. The series is "looking at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/06/books/06games.html

3 comments:

Cynthia said...

This brings to mind a session I once attended on Readers' Advisory. It was suggested that you could ask your patron about the last movie he/she enjoyed and use that to suggest books that have some of the same appeal characteristics, such as frame, pacing, characterization, etc.

Dan said...

Great find Libby, I looked up some of Motoko Rich's other articles and they seem very interesting as well. I'll keep an eye on this series.

Does your library have a subscription to the NYT, or how did you find this article?

Libby said...

Hi Dan - I actually get the NYT at home (Florida edition - goes to press awfully early, judging by the news it misses). It can take all week to read the huge Sunday paper, sometimes!

I had been waiting for this second part of the series. The editors sure are spacing it out ... maybe they are not sure how many parts it will have?