TY - BOOK AU - Gomez,Jeff TI - Print is dead: books in our digital age SN - 9780230527164 AV - Z 116 G633p 2008 U1 - 070.5 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York PB - Macmillan KW - Book industries and trade KW - Industria y comercio del libro KW - Electronic books KW - Libros electrónicos N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2009277820-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0912/2009277820-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1207/2009277820-t.html ER -