Print is dead : books in our digital age /
Gomez, Jeff, 1970-
Print is dead : books in our digital age / Jeff Gomez. - London ; New York : Macmillan, 2008. - vi, 221 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-213) and index.
Introduction PART I: STOP THE PRESSES Byte Flight Us and Them Newspapers Are No Longer News PART II: THE DIGITAL TIPPING POINT Generation Download Generation Upload On Demand Everything eBooks and the Revolution that Didn't Happen PART III: SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BOOK Writers in a Digital Future Readers in a Digital Future Will Books Disappear? Afterword Acknowledgements Notes
For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.
9780230527164 0230527167
2009277820
GBA761522 bnb
013810693 Uk
Book industries and trade.
Industria y comercio del libro
Electronic books.
Libros electrónicos
Z 116 / G633p 2008
070.5
Print is dead : books in our digital age / Jeff Gomez. - London ; New York : Macmillan, 2008. - vi, 221 pages ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-213) and index.
Introduction PART I: STOP THE PRESSES Byte Flight Us and Them Newspapers Are No Longer News PART II: THE DIGITAL TIPPING POINT Generation Download Generation Upload On Demand Everything eBooks and the Revolution that Didn't Happen PART III: SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BOOK Writers in a Digital Future Readers in a Digital Future Will Books Disappear? Afterword Acknowledgements Notes
For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.
9780230527164 0230527167
2009277820
GBA761522 bnb
013810693 Uk
Book industries and trade.
Industria y comercio del libro
Electronic books.
Libros electrónicos
Z 116 / G633p 2008
070.5