From ‘Rise of the e-book’ by Carl Zimmer, Nature, Vol. 480, 22/29 December 2011, pp 451-452:
In the summer of 2010, on a tiny island off the coast of Maine, I saw the future of books. I had been invited to teach a writing course at Shoals Marine Laboratory on Appledore Island, a beautiful bulge of rock covered in scrub and herring-gull nests. During a break at the beach with my family, my wife finished reading her book with typical supersonic speed. She craved another, so she decided to experiment with her new iPhone.
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Reads Well founder Jennifer Cornell has worked as a pet sitter, a sandwich maker, a field biologist, a community support coordinator, a scientific illustrator, a public speaking coach and a professor of English.
In addition to fiction, she has published original research in a wide range of fields, including the defensive behaviour of Buckmoth caterpillars (Hemileuca lucina), representations of political violence in film and literature, the Black Death, restorative justice, and the literary motif of star-crossed love. She’s been teaching somebody something for over 25 years. 
