Digital Directions: The Redesign of Reading

It all seemed so familiar. Isn't that what so many of us are immersed in these past several years: understanding how to combine the enabling technologies available to us—mobile displays, Web services, and the like—to create communications solutions that offer new value to the audiences and content domains we address? Further, our goal is not so much to emulate Gutenberg—who was on such a bleeding edge that he was never able to successfully monetize his publishing operation—but those who came later, who successfully turned a profit from putting words on paper.