Comments on: The Future of the Book – Cyber Alternatives? http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/2010/02/the-future-of-the-book-cyber-alternatives/ American Coffee House: A virtual meeting place Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:35:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Worth http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/2010/02/the-future-of-the-book-cyber-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-296 Jonathan Worth Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:01:15 +0000 http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/?p=768#comment-296 There's a thread on the topic of the 'future of photobook' that might be of interest in this topic/thread, the themes remain relevant I think regardless of media: http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/12/want-to-be-part-of-our-new-crowd-sourced-blog-post-tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-future-of-photobooks/ jw There’s a thread on the topic of the ‘future of photobook’ that might be of interest in this topic/thread, the themes remain relevant I think regardless of media:

http://blog.livebooks.com/2009/12/want-to-be-part-of-our-new-crowd-sourced-blog-post-tell-us-what-you-think-about-the-future-of-photobooks/

jw

]]> By: Robin http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/2010/02/the-future-of-the-book-cyber-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Robin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:16:08 +0000 http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/?p=768#comment-294 Interesting topic. Everything is coming into question. The book has served us well and my guess is it will continue to do so. A group of us visited the Beinecke Library at Yale last Fall. The building is a jewel box and the books and manuscripts it holds are the jewels. They have an emotional dimension that electronic digits completely lack. Maybe we have a parallel universe for digital while the reality of a book lives on. Or will iPad achieve convergence? Interesting topic. Everything is coming into question. The book has served us well and my guess is it will continue to do so.
A group of us visited the Beinecke Library at Yale last Fall. The building is a jewel box and the books and manuscripts it holds are the jewels. They have an emotional dimension that electronic digits completely lack.
Maybe we have a parallel universe for digital while the reality of a book lives on. Or will iPad achieve convergence?

]]> By: Professor Derek Smith http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/2010/02/the-future-of-the-book-cyber-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Professor Derek Smith Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:44:28 +0000 http://www.blog.rsa-us.org/?p=768#comment-292 Cyber books may become more popular, particularly with totalitarian governments who will find them easier to rewrite than the published printed words. Cyber books may become more popular, particularly with totalitarian governments who will find them easier to rewrite than the published printed words.

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