Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

Over the weekend, in the “Books of Style” section (nestled within the overall Sunday Styles section) of the New York Times, Print is Dead was featured alongside Pierre Bayard’s recently published How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read (which was originally published in French). The article was titled “Beyond the Cover, Who’s to Know,” and it starts off talking about Bayard’s book, which is about how people don’t need to read books in their entirety to get their meaning. The article then segues to my book, which more or less states that you don’t need to read the physical format of books in order to gain meaningful access to the content inside.

Here’s a snippet of the article:

“Today’s kids are not going to want to pick up a big book and spend hours in a corner silently, passively reading,” Mr. Gomez warns. Instead, he says, “They’re going to ditch the hardback and head over to Facebook.” Why shouldn’t the “boring bits” of “The Mill on the Floss” be expunged? he asks. Why don’t savvy publishers expand their market by “remixing Middlemarch and Middlesex?” Why can’t Dickens be as fun as World of Warcraft? And why would anyone write a travel memoir anymore, when “Google Earth has inventoried nearly every backyard on the planet?” (I’d pursue this further, but it’s time to update my Facebook status.)

To read the entire thing, click here.