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From Aldus Manutius until recently, book lovers have been the most passionate readers. Now they are mostly just the oldest readers. Thanks to digital data, there is a fateful choice to be made between serving lovers of the text and lovers of the page [...] Clay Shirky schreibt auf Boing Boing eine kurze Entgegnung zu [...]
John Donatich, director of Yale University Press, invoked the theme—the hazy economic future of print works in an increasingly digitized publishing environment—in his keynote address, saying, “Many look forward to the day in which we can etherize books online and commit what the director of the Beinecke Library, Frank Turner, calls ‘bibliographic euthanasia.’ ” Vor [...]
Lovelybooks, das derzeit größte soziale Büchernetzwerk in deutscher Sprache, und Alexandria, ein ambitioniertes Projekt von Buch.de, werden in einem FAZ-Artikel näher beleuchtet.