Why books still matter

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 329-342

  Donatich, John ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Books; Evolution of publishing; Reading behaviour; Reading in print; Reading online

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349866537     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/jsp.40.4.329     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Quoted in Randall Stross, 'Freed From the Page, But a Book Nonetheless,' New York Times (27 January 2008)
2. Beau Friedlander, 'The Internet vs. Books: Peaceful Coexistence,' Los Angeles Times (9 November 2008)
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, available via http://nces.ed.gov/
6. National Endowment for the Arts, To Read or Not to Read (Research Report #47, November 2007)
7. Laura Brown, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff, University Publishing in a Digital Age (Ithaka, 2007), available at http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ Ithaka%20University%20Publishing%20Report.pdf
8. Google Library Project, http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html
9. Chris Anderson, 'The Long Tail,' Wired 12, 10 (October 2004), available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/tail.html
10. Kevin Kelly, 'Scan This Book!' New York Times Magazine (14 May 2006): 42+, 46, 44
11. David A. Bell, 'The Bookless Future: What the Internet Is Doing to Scholarship,' The New Republic (2 May 2005): 27-33, 27
12. Ibid., 28
13. Maryanne Wolf, Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (New York: HarperPerennial 2008)
14. The quoted passages are based on the author's notes from a conference address by B. Stein.
15. Kelly, 'Scan This Book,' 48
16. Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (New York: Viking 1996), 35
17. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed. 1995), s.v. 'monograph'
18. In Jay Parini, Benjamin's Crossing (New York: Henry Holt 1997), 192