By Ted Striphas
ISBN-10: 0231148143
ISBN-13: 9780231148146
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ISBN-13: 9780231148153
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ISBN-13: 9780231519649
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Hence, there are no anachronisms, only ways of seeing things as anachronisms. Whenever common sense tells us that printed books are dusty holdovers from the pre-electronic, analog era, we would do well to change our frame of reference. Books are artifacts with a deep and abiding history that belong in and to our own age—no more and no less so than flat-screen televisions, MP3 players, computers, and other so-called cutting-edge technologies. If this book neither declares that there is a crisis nor denies major historical shifts, if it neither rejoices in printed books nor aspires to bid them a fond farewell, then what, exactly, is its intention?
The edition of The Importance of Being Earnest for sale on Apple’s App Store is heavily redacted, however. id=1858. Innis, Empire and Communications, 7. Raymond Williams, “Culture is Ordinary,” in Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism, ed. Robin Gale (London: Verso, 1989), 13. Acknowledgments HAVING TAUGHT COURSES on the history and cultural politics of electronic media for the better part of a decade, in the fall of 2006 I decided to shift gears a bit. I designed a new undergraduate course called “The Cultures of Books and Reading,” hoping it would dovetail with a book—this book—I was working on at the time.
5. Electronic publishing—United States. 6. Internet bookstores—United States. I. Title. 45002—dc22 A Columbia University Press E-book. edu. Designed by Lisa Hamm References to Internet Web sites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. For Phaedra Contents Preface to the Paperback Edition Acknowledgments Introduction: The Late Age of Print Bottom Lines Edges Sites 1 E-Books and the Digital Future A Book by Any Other Name Shelf Life Book Sneaks Disappearing Digits A Different Story to Tell 2 The Big-Box Bookstore Blues Chain Reactions?
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