Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

The second installment of the Print is Dead podcast, as part of the book excerpt site, has just been delivered. The podcast features me reading the chapter “Us and Them” from the first section of the book, “Stop the Presses.”

Here’s a snippet of the chapter:

Not even the sleekest futurist who believes that one day all our food will be eaten in pill form and we will soon commute via buzzing hovercraft thinks that books should or ever will be completely banned or eradicated. Instead, what the proponents of digital reading are advocating is that literary content and text adapt to our increasingly electronic future and lifestyles. And, if it doesn’t, then people won’t only turn away from books but they’ll also turn away from the stories and ideas found inside books

You can read the complete chapter here.

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Also, you can listen to the excerpt directly below:

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