The book is dead. Long live the book

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

The book is dead. Long live the book.
BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/19/the-book-is-dead-long-li
ve-the-book/

"I have nothing against books. But the book is an outmoded means 
of communicating information. And efforts to update it are 
hampered because, cuturally, we give undue reverence to the form 
for the form's sake. Publish or perish, that's the highest call 
of our intellectual elite. But any medium that defines itself as 
a medium is in trouble: newspapers, broadcast TV, broadcast 
radio, and books. They are all faced with new and better means of 
doing what they do without regard to the limitations of any one 
medium."

This whole blogpost and its followups are worth the read.

Chuck Hamaker
Associate University Librarian Collections and Technical Services
Atkins Library
University of North Carolina Charlotte
Charlotte, NC 28223