The Book is Dead : Long Live the Book (Paperback)

from dono421846

Professing to love the book, Young's prescription to save "book culture" is to eliminate books (think "burning the village to save the village"). Texts will be accessible digitally (he wrote before Kindle, but that's the kind of thing he imagined), but the physical book should be eliminated. He d...

from Amzzz

A really interesting look on the concept of the book being dead, how it's been dead for a long time and what we can do to bring it back to life. Young made it interesting with anecdotes and interesting language. Also he lectures at my uni :)

from adamclaxton

Being a huge lover of books I was immediately drawn to this title if at the very least to poo-poo the authors ideas, but I found that Sherman Young has put together some good arguments that the 'physical' book is dead or dying. His overview of the current state of publishing along with the costs ...