Print is dead : books in our digital age / Jeff Gomez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gomez, Jeff, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

vi, 221 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Despite 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.

Newspapers are struggling for readers and relevance; downloadable music has consigned the album to the format scrap heap, and the digital revolution is now about to leave books on the high shelf of history. In Print is Dead; Books in Our Digital Age, Jeff Gomez explains how authors, producers, distributors and readers must not only acknowledge these changes, but need to drive digital book creation, standards, storage and delivery as the first truly transformational thing to happen in the world of words since the printing press.

Contents:

Stop the presses

1 Byte flight 11

2 Us and them 31

3 Newspapers are no longer news 49

Totally wired

4 Generation download 67

5 Generation upload 81

6 On demand everything 101

7 Ebooks and the revolution that didn't happen 115

Saying goodbye to the book

8 Writers in a digital future 135

9 Readers in a digital future 156

10 Will books disappear? 175.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-213) and index.

ISBN:

9780230527164

0230527167

OCLC:

163616481