The Death of the Book through the Ages
Two decades ago, the Book Review ran an essay, “The End of Books,”in which the novelist Robert Coover questioned whether print could survive the age of “video transmissions, cellular phones, fax machines, computer networks, and in particular out in the humming digitalized precincts of avant-garde computer hackers, cyberpunks and hyperspace freaks.” Was the book as “dead as God”? …
Ganzer Artikel: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/review/the-death-of-the-book-through-the-ages.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all