http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2009/02/03/why-bother-calling-it-a-book/ Beyond the Book Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2009/02/03/why-bother-calling-it-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-261 Should We Call eBooks Something Else? | The Urban Elitist Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:21:20 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=83#comment-261 [...] Ted Striphas asks why we insist on calling ebooks books: So let me end with a modest proposal. Perhaps it’s time we cease referring to electronic reading devices as “e-books” and instead find some other, less papercentric, name. Maybe then, when the technology no longer feels compelled to prove its worthiness in relation to paper, will digital reading achieve what’s been expected of it for so long. [...] [...] Ted Striphas asks why we insist on calling ebooks books: So let me end with a modest proposal. Perhaps it’s time we cease referring to electronic reading devices as “e-books” and instead find some other, less papercentric, name. Maybe then, when the technology no longer feels compelled to prove its worthiness in relation to paper, will digital reading achieve what’s been expected of it for so long. [...]

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