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A Little Break

Ted Striphas — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:59:55 +0000

Sorry for all the quiet around here, especially after such an exciting spring at The Late Age of Print blog. I’ve been under the weather for the last week, and the fog that is/was my head kept me from writing anything intelligible.

Anyway, I’m on the mend and writing to let you know that I’m going to take a short break — probably for a couple of weeks. I’m in the midst of composing the preface to the paperback edition of The Late Age of Print, but since I was ill I’ve fallen behind in my writing. FYI, the paperback should be released sometime early next year, and the preface will elaborate on some issues I’ve been developing here over the last year. Mostly it will focus on e-books and the future of reading.

Apropos of the theme, I thought I’d leave you with this great Radio Shack ad from 1986, which I discovered yesterday on BoingBoing.

Talk about taking the idea of an e-book literally! I love it — plus the nerdy little kid kinda reminds me of someone who was about the same age in 1986, wore glasses, and was a little too into computers…

Reboot

Ted Striphas — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:48:12 +0000

Thanks, everyone, for your patience during my few-weeks hiatus from The Late Age of Print blog. My partner and I are thrilled to have had a child in early January. Ever since then life has felt like something of a time warp. I should have anticipated needing to take a short break from blogging, but I guess the hubris of first-time-parenting got the better of me. In any case we’re all beginning to settle into something of a routine — to whatever extent you can call the first month of anyone’s life “routine.” As I write this, our little guy is chilling in a bassinet right next to me.

I’m not exactly sure what the immediate future holds for this blog, beyond the fact that I intend to keep it up, running, and active. I suspect that I’ll be making shorter (and hopefully more frequent) posts, but we’ll see. In any case, please be sure to keep coming back; more content will indeed follow shortly.

Until then, don’t forget that you can download a PDF of the complete text The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control for free by clicking on the DOWNLOAD link at the top of the page. Happy new year and enjoy.

The Late Age of Print…Coming Soon

Ted Striphas — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:55:44 +0000

This blog is a companion to my book, The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control, which will be published in March 2009 by Columbia University Press. You can pre-order the book on the Press’ website or through Amazon.com.

The Late Age of Print blog is currently under construction. You can expect to see changes in the site’s design and features happening over the next couple of weeks, so check back here from time to time. I’m planning a “soft opening” for sometime in early to mid-February, and the blog’s grand opening will coincide with the release of my book–hopefully in March.

Stay tuned for more….