Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Jon Pareles had a story in The New York Times over the weekend about user-generated content; it doesn’t say anything new, but is a nice recap of what’s happened over the past year. The article focuses mostly on music, but has brief mentions of things like LonelyGirl15 on YouTube, and mentions “online novels” as one of the ways users can spread their creativity across the Web.

Excerpt: “Tech oracles predicted long ago that by making worldwide distribution instantaneous, the Web would democratize art as well as other discourse, at least for those who are connected. The virtual painting galleries, the free songs, the video blogs, the comedy clips, the online novels — all of them followed the rise of the Internet and the spread of broadband as inevitably as water spills through a crack in a dam. Why keep your creativity, or the lack of it, to yourself when you can invite the world to see?”

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