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This slender book can be read in one sitting by those so inclined. However, I think it will take far longer to consider the points Sherman Young makes. The book is dead because the book trade is about selling objects not ideas

This slender book can be read in one sitting by those so inclined. The book is dead because the book trade is about selling objects not ideas. Writing as a consumer, many of us have become caught up in the debate about presentation. Discussion about tradition versus technology is important, but it is surely not the critical issue. For some of us, the joy of owning and reading a printed book will always be important

The Book Is Dead book. Sometime in the late twentieth century the book died .

The Book Is Dead book. Published September 1st 2007 by University of New South Wales Press (first published May 2007). The Book Is Dead (Long Live the Book). 0868408042 (ISBN13: 9780868408040).

Bookstores are closing. Even though I knew this was coming it's sad. I love paper books. When I was a child, I spent most of my spare time at the library. There was an atmosphere there, a love of learning. I wanted to take all the books home with me. I wanted to create my own library. The books weren't just books, they were. When I was a bit older, and able to peer over the counter, I discovered bookstores. They became my new love. My library, wonderful as it was, didn't believe in interlibrary loans.

Long Live the Books! Stacia Varga. February 28, 2011 10:59 pm. 5 min read. As an author, I pay particular attention to the demand for books, and for now I see no reason to stop authoring books. We live in interesting times with regard to the availability of technical material. We have lots of free written material online in the form of vendor documentation online, forums, blogs, and Twitter. Online videos and training – some free and some not free – are also an option. I assure you that I don’t get rich from the effort, and fortunately that is not my motivation.

We are not allowed to call ''Glas'' a book either, because Mr. Derrida would have it that, as a literary category, the book is dead; the egregious ''Glas'' is something more futuristic, a text.

As though the digital book revolution might bring with it some sort of mass burning. On the same note, I live in a 1000 square foot condo which, while spacious for New York standards, is pretty much out of space to store books

As though the digital book revolution might bring with it some sort of mass burning. But friends (Romans, countrymen), I’ve had my nook for just over four months now. I have seen the future and I welcome our new e-paper overlords with open arms. Before I got my nook, I couldn’t tell you the last book I’d read that wasn’t an O’Reilly manual. On the same note, I live in a 1000 square foot condo which, while spacious for New York standards, is pretty much out of space to store books. My nook on the other hand still has plenty of space in its on-board memory. Not to mention expansion cards.

Academic and author Sherman Young's presentation from the 2009 Future of the Book conference held in Auckland, New . In this world, people gave up books and began listening to boxes in the living room, then watching them, entranced by the moving image.

Academic and author Sherman Young's presentation from the 2009 Future of the Book conference held in Auckland, New Zealand. In the West, and elsewhere, we became people of the screen.

If by books you are to be understood as referring to our innumerable collections of paper, printed, sewed and bound in a cover announcing the title of the work, I own to you frankly that I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids me to believe) that.

If by books you are to be understood as referring to our innumerable collections of paper, printed, sewed and bound in a cover announcing the title of the work, I own to you frankly that I do not believe (and the progress of electricity and modern mechanism forbids me to believe) that Gutenberg's invention can do otherwise than sooner or later fall. into desuetude as a means of current interpretation of our mental product. .Our grandchildren will no longer trust their works to this somewhat antiquated process, now become very easy to replace by--.

I have nothing against books. But the book is an outmoded means of communicating information. May 19, 2006 by Jeff Jarvis. And efforts to update it are hampered because, cuturally, we give undue reverence to the form for the form’s sake. Publish or perish, that’s the highest call of our intellectual elite. But any medium that defines itself as a medium is in trouble: newspapers, broadcast TV, broadcast radio, and books.