Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age

The fifth and final installment of the Print is Dead podcast, as part of the book excerpt site, has just been delivered. The podcast features me reading the book’s afterword.

Here’s a snippet of the chapter:

Given everything we know, and everything we’ve been able to witness during the decades that have brought us the Internet revolution – a dozen tumultuous years that nobody could have predicted – all of these new inventions and ways of living will undoubtedly impact reading and publishing. Indeed, they already have; witness the massive layoffs in newspapers and magazines that can be directly attributed to the Web, not to mention the overall decline in reading and book sales. It would be foolhardy, if not terribly dangerous, not to realize this and see the connection. It’s simply not possible that the Internet is going to have an effect on every area of our lives except reading books. It has already had profound effects on the way people buy, write, produce and talk about books. So why not the books themselves?

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