http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2009/02/03/why-bother-calling-it-a-book/ Beyond the Book Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2009/02/03/why-bother-calling-it-a-book/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Should We Call eBooks Something Else? | The Urban Elitist Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:21:20 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=83#comment-2 [...] 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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