Comments on: The End of Publishing (Books Are Dead and Boring) http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/03/18/the-end-of-publishing-books-are-dead-and-boring/ Beyond the Book Sun, 29 Jan 2012 05:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: phill http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/03/18/the-end-of-publishing-books-are-dead-and-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-383 phill Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:21:17 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=664#comment-383 Indeed an interesting question Conrad. Finding a middle ground in this discourse is very difficult. Quite cutting edge actually. Have you read Janet Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck - same era as Birkerts' text and the other side to the argument. My current PhD is on this issue of what the future for literature, the book and book culutre might be. I have read Birkerts book and, while an interesting read, certainly seems outdated in a web 2.0 world. Andrew Keen's fairly recent text is of the same ilk, but poses some intersteing questions as does Jonathon Zittrrain's and Sherman Young's work. You might also check out Henry Jenkins stuff. There is some research coming out now about the impact of e-readers and ebooks, but again this is fairly new stuff. Would be interested in hearing of your work. Indeed an interesting question Conrad. Finding a middle ground in this discourse is very difficult. Quite cutting edge actually. Have you read Janet Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck – same era as Birkerts’ text and the other side to the argument. My current PhD is on this issue of what the future for literature, the book and book culutre might be. I have read Birkerts book and, while an interesting read, certainly seems outdated in a web 2.0 world. Andrew Keen’s fairly recent text is of the same ilk, but poses some intersteing questions as does Jonathon Zittrrain’s and Sherman Young’s work. You might also check out Henry Jenkins stuff. There is some research coming out now about the impact of e-readers and ebooks, but again this is fairly new stuff. Would be interested in hearing of your work.

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]]> By: Ted Striphas http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/03/18/the-end-of-publishing-books-are-dead-and-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Ted Striphas Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:09:13 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=664#comment-381 Great question, Conrad, and a difficult one in that most of the work published on e-literacy tends toward the extremes of naive celebration or outright dismissal. I don't know how historically grounded the work is, but I've long enjoyed McLuhan's <i>The Gutenberg Galaxy</i>. Jay David Bolter's <i>Writing Space</i> is also quite good as well, and given what I know about you/your research interests, I suspect it'd be right up your alley. I'll try to brainstorm some more. I'll post another comment if I come up with any. Great question, Conrad, and a difficult one in that most of the work published on e-literacy tends toward the extremes of naive celebration or outright dismissal.

I don’t know how historically grounded the work is, but I’ve long enjoyed McLuhan’s The Gutenberg Galaxy. Jay David Bolter’s Writing Space is also quite good as well, and given what I know about you/your research interests, I suspect it’d be right up your alley.

I’ll try to brainstorm some more. I’ll post another comment if I come up with any.

]]> By: Conrad DiDiodato http://www.thelateageofprint.org/2010/03/18/the-end-of-publishing-books-are-dead-and-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Conrad DiDiodato Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:52 +0000 http://www.thelateageofprint.org/?p=664#comment-380 Ted, I just read "The Gutenberg Elegies" by Sven Birkerts, probably the most anti-ebook exposition I've encountered (with maybe the exception of Mark Bauerlein's"The Dumbest Generation" or Chris Hedges's "Empire of Illusion"), a work that's probably dated in terms of the old misconceptions of eliteracy it actively employs: such as that it lacks depth, is ahistorical and reduces reading to flimsy 'lateral' thought processes. I'd like a more balanced approach, more attuned to the economic, philosophical and linguistic underpinnings of any true debate on this topic. Would you happen to know of any recently published works that offer a more comprehensive, research-based approach to eliteracy? Ted,

I just read “The Gutenberg Elegies” by Sven Birkerts, probably the most anti-ebook exposition I’ve encountered (with maybe the exception of Mark Bauerlein’s”The Dumbest Generation” or Chris Hedges’s “Empire of Illusion”), a work that’s probably dated in terms of the old misconceptions of eliteracy it actively employs: such as that it lacks depth, is ahistorical and reduces reading to flimsy ‘lateral’ thought processes.

I’d like a more balanced approach, more attuned to the economic, philosophical and linguistic underpinnings of any true debate on this topic. Would you happen to know of any recently published works that offer a more comprehensive, research-based approach to eliteracy?

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