| Description |
xviii, 233 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The history of books -- Bookmark: Reading in bed -- The origin of ebooks -- Bookmark: Annotations -- Launching the Kindle -- Bookmark: Knapsacks, book bags, and baggage -- Improving perfection : launching the Kindle2 -- Bookmark: Burning books -- The first competitors -- Bookmark: Book browsing -- The neurobiology of reading -- Bookmark: Love letters preserved between pages -- Why books (and ebooks) can never be replaced -- Bookmark: Indexes -- Igniting readers at last! -- Bookmark: Autographs -- Wax cylinders and technological obsolescence -- Bookmark: Used books -- Fanning the flames of revolution -- Bookmark: Inscriptions -- Innovators and laggards : the new face of publishing -- Bookmark: Bookstores -- Our books are moving to the Cloud -- Bookmark: Bookshelves -- Google : a Facebook for books? -- Bookmark: Book discovery -- Globalization -- Bookmark: Dictionaries -- Language change : Whan that Aprille, with hise shoures soote -- Bookmark: Dog-eared pages -- Education : print or digital? -- Bookmark: Book covers -- Libraries -- Bookmark: Bookworms -- The future of e-reader hardware : Pico projectors? -- Bookmark: Lost libraries -- The future of writing -- Bookmark: Degraded text -- Digitizing culture -- Bookmark: Altered books -- Reading : a dying art? -- Bookmark: Attention spans -- The last digital frontier. |
| Subject |
Electronic books.
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Books and reading.
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Books and reading -- Forecasting.
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| ISBN |
9781402288838 paperback |
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1402288832 paperback |
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