Books.

Luis GutierrezMary Archer 26 Sept. 2013

ContentsPreface

ONE History of Books

TWO Modern Era of Books

Epiloguevii

Preface

viii

"the little lady who

made this great war."

“You’re a Wizard, Harry”

3 Books that Changed the World

DEAD.

“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

“A book is a dream that you hold in

your hands.”Neil Gaiman

CHAPTER ONE

History of Books

CHAPTER TWO

Modern Era of Books

Dead-Tree Book SalesAmazon, July 2010

Neilson Bookscan

“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

“E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines”

Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, 2012

2012

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

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,

Jeff Bezos

Epilogue

What’s Next?

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.”

SourcesThe 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

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