Intended Audience:
- anyone interested in the transition from printed books to electronic books
- people interested in how Internet technology will shape human culture in the future
- people interested in born digital literature or other artistic expression
- book nerds
I think the content of the site is useful to people interested in the topic. The blog if:book is especially noteworthy. It is helpful for people who want to stay up to date on news bits about digital libraries, or in their words "new forms of discourse in the network age."
Consistency of design:
I think they struggle with the site design a little. The homepage is incredibly simple but the blog is different. It is a large column with the blog entries and a sidebar with many little tiny links that are hard to decipher.
Also something that bothered me personally but I don't think is necessarily bad design is that the "about us" section is the very first thing on the page. I can see why they would do that, seeing as future of the book is a fairly large and vague topic. It would make sense to identify yourself right off the bat. I would just rather see what they are doing first and then see who they are.
Ease of Navigation
I have one bone to pick with the architects of this site. When you are in the blog and you try to see the Gamer Theory visualization, you have to click through 6 images of the text arc before you can actually open the visualization and play with it. In my mind, an image of a Java application like that should open it with one click when you first see it.
Overall, an interesting site that I would visit in the future. And a good resource for interested information professionals.
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