The effects on the book's availabilities available? The Answer the question:of why the printed book may be no more? As books become more and more less available, as books in print are becoming less and less available as we change our reading behaviors, and as Douglas Rushkoff in Program or Be Programmed, quotes, "a lot of the Newspapers that go online do so because they feel they do so out of a necessity;" So, with more and more medias turning to digital, there is a less and less need to have printed materials available.
With this new age, as we have less and less time for personal and professional reading, and as readings become more available to us in digital form for a fast paced society, we respond to what we read digitally, as it becomes easier to have all medias in one place to read, communicate and respond. So, the more time we spend with digital medias, the less time we have to pick up an actual printed book. The printed materials are getting more and more left out as there are less books being printed.
So, where does this cycle end?
Books becoming extinct.
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I'm not clear what the point of the post is. I like that you tag things and cite Rushkoff, etc. That's great. But this could really be summed up by saying "technology is making us pick up a physical book less." Fill it with more deep content. Is this a bad thing? Why should we care? Try to incorporate your links throughout your post rather than piling them up at the end.
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ReplyDeleteOkay, thank you, I did not realize to be doing these things, and thank you, I did not find this comment until now, I do not know how it was missed, but I will work on these things, and thanks, Elizabeth L