Opening the Book: (From the Closed to the Open Text).
There has been a great deal of speculative eschatology around the book--the end of the book, the end of print culture, and the demise of the author as well as a kind of messianic heralding of the new age of the screen, universal access to information and learning, and commons-based cultural producti...
| Published in: | International Journal of the Book Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 11 - 25 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2007
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