Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Today I’ve launched a website featuring excerpts from my new book Print is Dead. The site can be found at www.printisdeadbook.com. At this site I’m featuring five excerpts: the book’s introduction and afterward, and one chapter from each of the book’s three parts. This amounts to about one-third of the book’s entire content. All of the excerpts are free, as is access to the site. There’s no catch; I just want people to learn about the book and to start talking and thinking about what I believe to be an incredibly important topic.

I’m also starting a podcast of me reading the excerpts; you can sign up using the RSS feed here:

http://www.printisdeadblog.com/print_is_dead_podcast.xml

Or you can listen to the first excerpt, the book’s introduction, here:

For now, here’s a snippet of the Introduction:

While print is not yet dead, it is undoubtedly sickening. Newspaper readership has been in decline for years, magazines are also in trouble, and trade publishing (the selling of novels and non-fiction books to adults primarily for entertainment), has not seen any substantial growth for years. More and more people are turning away from traditional methods of reading, turning instead to their computers and the Internet for information and entertainment. Whether this comes in the form of getting news online, reading a blog, or contributing to a wiki, the general population is shifting away from print consumption, heading instead to increasingly digital lives.

Enjoy.