The Future of the Book (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520204515)

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays suggest that it won't be that simple. The digitization of discourse will not be effected without some wrenching social and cultural dislocations.

The contributors to this volume are enthusiastic about the possibilities created by digital technologies, instruments that many of them have played a role in developing and deploying. But they also see the new media raising serious critical issues that force us to reexamine basic notions about rhetoric, reading, and the nature of discourse itself.

Author: Geoffrey Nunberg
ISBN-10: 0520204514
ISBN-13: 9780520204515
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 12/19/1996
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.32w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/1996 pg. 116