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Readers in a digital future
Readers should have all along been the focus of the debate over the future of the book, and yet they have heretofore been relegated to the sidelines. Instead of thinking of ways to give readers a different or mor...
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Afterword
If you make up a list of movies that offer dystopian visions of the future, you’ll find that it’s much longer than the list of Utopian ones. From art films like Blade Runner and Brazil, to the popcorn fantasies o...
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Byte flight
A blank piece of paper and a computer screen when it’s off have something in common: both are empty, devoid of content, ripe with possibility. A myriad of things could cover each: words, numbers, pictures; philos...
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Newspapers are no longer news
In the campy Ed Wood film Plan 9 From Outer Space, a couple are sitting on their patio staring up at the night sky. All of a sudden they’re awash in bright light and surrounded by strange noises. They’re both mom...
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Ebooks and the revolution that didn’t happen
In the past hundred years many predictions have been made about the future and fate of the book that ultimately did not come true -for instance, that paperbacks would be the end of publishing, or that CD-ROMs wou...
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Will books disappear?
While the relevance and popularity of printed material (such as books, magazines and newspapers) will get smaller and smaller over the next few decades due to digital reading, books themselves will never entirely...
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Introduction
In the 1984 film Ghostbusters, Annie Potts (a secretary at the newly opened Ghostbusters office in Manhattan) asks nerdy scientist Harold Ramis whether or not he likes to read. Ramis doesn’t hesitate for a second...
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Us and them
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 bibliophi...
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Generation download
It began, as lots of trouble does, in a dorm room. It was 1999, and Boston college student Shawn Fanning (nicknamed ‘napster’) wanted to find a way to trade and share music with his friends. Frustrated by the com...
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On demand everything
Until very recently, television networks scheduled shows on a specific night of the week at a certain time of day, and it was then up to the viewers to be sitting in front of their television sets at that time or...
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Writers in a digital future
George Gissing’s novel about the down-and-out literary life of London, New Grub Street, paints a brilliant portrait of authors struggling to write meaningful material in a marketplace that relies on gaudy bestsel...
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Generation upload
When I was in high school in the mid-1980s, I put together a literary magazine that featured poetry, stories and artwork from my friends and other people at the school. One of the poems was my own, but I signed i...
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