The Case for Books
Past, Present, and Future
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2010
Summary
The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781586489021 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 158648902X |
| Author: | Robert Darnton |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2010 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 141mm x 15mm |
| Series: | PublicAffairs |
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Critics Review
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 29, 2010 “A useful text with which to muse on this subject is Robert Darnton’s The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (PublicAffairs, 2009). In it, the onetime newspaper reporter, distinguished scholar of the Enlightenment and the history of the book, and director of Harvard’s libraries, swings between explanations and concerns about Google Book Search, and how the situation with books today looks in the perspective of history. Many of his observations give pause.”
About The Author
Robert Darnton
A former professor of European history at Princeton University, Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and director of the Harvard University Library. The founder of the Guttenberg-e program, he is the author of many books. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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