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| There’s a lot going on in the world of books. I’ve received a raft of interesting tomes recently, just at the moment when this whole Hachette-Amazon battle has put publishing square in the spotlights. And that in turn raises an interesting discussion about how Americans get their information in 2014 and what the future of reading looks like. All of this makes me think it’s about time for a series of posts on the subject, including some reviews of these books I’ve been receiving. But let’s start with an overview.
How We Read I get vertigo when I think about how radically we’ve shifted what we read and how we read it–all in the space of less than two decades. We may never have gotten our Jetson’s flying cars, but we did get the internet, and it has transformed media in ways no one could have imagined or predicted. Two decades ago, I was working at Memorial Library, a 5-million volume shrine to letters on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. If you wanted information … |
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