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“Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present.
I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.” Lisa Bu TED 2013
“The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated”
MIT Technology Review, 2010
Businessinsider.com:
“Amazon has sold around 22 million Kindle books so far this year. That's just the equivalent of 6% of the total print book market, which remains tiny.”
2010
2012 Pew Research Center
•89% Read at least one printed book–Printed book readers declined 72% to
67%
•30% Read at least one e-book–E-book readers inclined 16% to 23%
“Yes, there’s an ongoing change in
reading habits, but it no longer looks like a sea change.” Will Gutenberg laugh last?, 2013
The New York Times:
“In a year that was monopolized by the “Fifty Shades” erotic novels and their various knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1.8 billion.”
2012,
Newsweek 1995 on the internet:
“Baloney. Do our computer pundits lack all common sense? The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”
SourcesThe Dynamics of Mass Communication, Joseph R. Dominick, 2011, Chapter 6: Books
http://www.publishers.org/ American Publishing Association.
http://mashable.com/category/ereader/
http://theprofessornotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/eTextbook-Pricing-v2.4.pdf textbook breakdown
Function Follows Form, by David Gray, a review of History of the Book in America, by Adrian Johns