For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkablyunaltered. 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. INDICE: Introduction - PART I: STOP THE PRESSES - Byte Flight - Us and Them - Newspapers Are No Longer News - PART II: THE DIGITAL TIPPING POINT - Generation Download - Generation Upload - On Demand Everything - eBooks and the Revolution that Didn't Happen - PART III: SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BOOK - Writers ina Digital Future - Readers in a Digital Future - Will Books Disappear? - Afterword - Acknowledgements - Notes
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61446-8
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 10/07/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés