Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

The New York Times has an interesting article last week talking about the tradtion of college textbooks, and the further encroachment of electronic textbooks in the classroom and on university campuses.

Excerpt: “Writers have written lovingly of the tactile pleasures provided by printed books and newspapers, but no one has paid particular tribute to the voluptuous four-color, four-pound textbook. Now being replaced by weightless electronic versions, the bound artifact remains forlorn and unloved. In any ceremony marking its demise, college students may want to throw a fusillade of stones at its coffin. Expensive texts, after all, have broken many student budgets.”

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