Print is Dead Books in Our Digital Age

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gomez, Jeff
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2008, 2008
Series:Macmillan Science
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:VIII, 224 p online resource
ISBN:9781429954778