Is This the End of the Story for Books?
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Description: "Books will still be around, many scholars say, but we may read in a different way." Free registration required. [NY Times]
(November 20, 1999)
Is This the End of the Story for Books? Is This the End of the Story for Books? No, Experts Say, but You'd Better Get Ready to E-Read irst the scroll, then the codex and the Gutenberg Bible. And now the electronic book? Almost nothing causes more anxiety in the publishing world than the idea that books as we know them might one day be replaced by electronic or e-books. Will paper books, with their distinctive smell and touch, the special, almost trancelike intimacy they can engender between writer and reader, vanish forever? And if so, what will the experience of reading be like in the 21st century?
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