12. “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
13. “A book is a dream
that you hold in your hands.”
Neil Gaiman
27. “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
29. 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
30. 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,
35. 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.”
36. Sources
The 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
