Robert Darnton The case for books

past, present, and future

The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this collection...

Engels | 218 pagina's | PublicAffairs, New York, [N.Y.] | 2009

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Robert Darnton The devil in the holy water, or The art of slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon

Engels | 534 pagina's | University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia | 2009

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