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The Book is dead…The role of the book in the world of the iPad
The Book is DeadLong live the book
A History of the World in 4! Slides(With apologies to Julian Barnes)
In the beginning we talkedAnd it was Good
“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in
their souls; they will cease to exercise memory
because they rely on that which is written”
Then came writingAnd it was on the wall :-)
Then came the BookAnd it was good
The Electronic AgePeople of the Screen
The Internet Age(the half slide)
TheView from 1987Knowledge Navigator
Invisible
Ubiquitous
Connected
Multimedia
Everything is online…Online is everything…
Video/TV/MoviesHundreds of thousands
Radio/PodcastsThousands of stations
MusicMillions of songs
The entire world wide web
Newspapers
Magazines
The new stuff…
Books
“Print is where books go to die”Jeff Jarvis
The Temptationof the screen
So What is a Book?
Not DeadJust Resting
Re-invention
Re-mediationLong form texts
mq library acquisitions
2005 2006 2007
New Print Books
16,651 17,535 16,764
New Electronic
Books895 22,587 68,719
http://senate.mq.edu.au/ltagenda/0308/library_report%202007.doc
one million eBooks sold
The Heavenly Library?
The best way to predict the
future is to invent it
Alan Kay