Tag Archives: books

Digital Loeb: Rebirth of the Book?

Posted on November 2, 2014 by geoffcain

Maybe now that Harvard Press is doing it, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that the book isn’t being killed off by the internet. I have a number of posts on this blog addressing the so-called death of … Continue reading →

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Death of the Book Redux

Posted on July 17, 2014 by geoffcain

I don’t know if this is related to climate change or the polar vortex, but the yearly declaration that the book is dead or dying is early this year. Naomi S. Baron, in her article “How E-Reading Threatens the Humanities” … Continue reading →

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Reports on the Death of the Book are Greatly Exaggerated

Posted on April 4, 2014 by geoffcain

I was at a poetry reading at the library a while back and one of the poets had a poem about how lost in cyberspace everyone is and the implication was that he was seeing the end of print culture … Continue reading →

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Books and The Latest Technology

Posted on January 26, 2013 by geoffcain

Fredrick Furnivall, OED Editor via Wikipedia I write here a lot about technology and books, but specifically about open education resources and open textbooks, all of which tend to mean electronic texts. I love electronic texts and the internet. Through … Continue reading →

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On the Greatly Exaggerated Death of Culture

Posted on February 24, 2010 by geoffcain

I really thought Culture (I mean the exclusive education of privilege maintained by privilege) would have died years ago. Sven Birkerts and others have been predicting the death of The Book, Google is supposed be making us stupid, and instant … Continue reading →

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