Abstract
There can be no doubt that we live in a digital world, and that the influence of computers and the Internet now play an important part in everyday life. Yet there’s a very real and widening gulf between bibliophiles and those who preach the new gospel of electronic change. But while this may seem like a very new argument, filled with Zeitgeist terms and modern day gadgets, at its heart is a conflict that is — at the very least — already a half-century old.
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Gomez, J. (2008). Us and them. In: Print is Dead. Macmillan Science. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4299-5477-8_3
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