Tagged ‘print is dead’
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
In his 2008 book, Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age, Jeff Gomez augers that the future of electronic publishing depends on whether publishers are prepared to meet the demands of a new generation of readers he calls "Generation Download." This generation, he argues, "is the first generation to come of age not knowing anything but an existence with the web."
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
In Print is Dead, one of Jeff Gomez's arguments in the chapter "On Demand Everything" struck me as peculiar. While I haven't finished the entire book yet, I find myself agreeing with almost all of his defenses of the e-book, even when he sometimes arrives at different conclusions than I do.
