For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.
'This book is a wake-up call for anyone in the print media who has not yet grasped or embraced the realities of the digital world created by the Internet...He's [Gomez] done a good job. Print is Dead is a succinct and useful field guide to digial media.' - Anthony Cheetham, Literary Review
Introduction
PART I: STOP THE PRESSES
Byte Flight
Us and Them
Newspapers Are No Longer News
PART II: THE DIGITAL TIPPING POINT
Generation Download
Generation Upload
On Demand Everything
eBooks and the Revolution that Didn't Happen
PART III: SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BOOK
Writers in a Digital Future
Readers in a Digital Future
Will Books Disappear?
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Originally from Southern California, Jeff Gomez lived in Manhattan for over a decade and recently moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. He is the author of four novels, including the cult favorite Our Noise, which was published by Scribner Paperback fiction in America and Penguin in the UK. He is currently the Director of Internet Marketing for Holtzbrinck Publishers, owners of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, Picador, Tor and a number of other leading book and magazine brands. Jeff has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry's beginning in 1999, and he has also been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout North America. You can visit his blog at www.printisdeadblog.com.
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For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered. Through wars, radio, TV, computer games and fluctuating literacy rates, the book has, somewhat bizarrely, remained the more robust and culturally relevant way to communicate ideas. Now, for the first time since the Middle Ages, all that is about to change.
Reviews
'This book is a wake-up call for anyone in the print media who has not yet grasped or embraced the realities of the digital world created by the Internet...He's [Gomez] done a good job. Print is Dead is a succinct and useful field guide to digial media.' - Anthony Cheetham, Literary Review
Contents
Introduction
PART I: STOP THE PRESSES
Byte Flight
Us and Them
Newspapers Are No Longer News
PART II: THE DIGITAL TIPPING POINT
Generation Download
Generation Upload
On Demand Everything
eBooks and the Revolution that Didn't Happen
PART III: SAYING GOODBYE TO THE BOOK
Writers in a Digital Future
Readers in a Digital Future
Will Books Disappear?
Afterword
Acknowledgements
Notes
Authors
Originally from Southern California, Jeff Gomez lived in Manhattan for over a decade and recently moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. He is the author of four novels, including the cult favorite Our Noise, which was published by Scribner Paperback fiction in America and Penguin in the UK. He is currently the Director of Internet Marketing for Holtzbrinck Publishers, owners of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, Picador, Tor and a number of other leading book and magazine brands. Jeff has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry's beginning in 1999, and he has also been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout North America. You can visit his blog at www.printisdeadblog.com.
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