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Introduction

A Brief History of Print

The End of Books

Hypertext

What Is The Book?

 
The Novel Is Dead

This Is Not Science Fiction

Monkeys & Typewriters

In Defense of The E-Book

Conclusion

References






The end of books?


References

Cited Sources

Abbot, Wendy and Kelly, Kate.  “Sooner or later!—Have e-books turned the page?”  Paper delivered at the 12th Biennial Conference and Exhibition 2-5 February, 2004 Melbourne Convention Centre.  PDF.  Bond University, Australia.  (Accessed Nov. 29 2004). <http://www.bond.edu.au/library/staff/abbottjpub.htm>.

Akst, Daniel.   “Computers as Authors.”  The New York Times Online.  Section E, Column 3.  The Arts/Cultural Desk.  22 Nov.  2004.  (Accessed 27 Nov. 2004)  <http://www.nytimes.com>.

Bernstein, Mark.  “Electronic reading.” HypertextNow.  2003.  Eastgate Systems.  (Accessed18 Nov. 2004.)  <http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Electronic.html>.

Bolter, Jay David.  Writing Space:  computers, hypertext, and the remediation of print.  Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001.   

Coover, Robert.  “The end of books.” New York Times.  21 June 1992.  Academic Search       Premier, via UBC Library <http://www.library.ubc.ca>.
 
Gass, William.  “In defense of the book.”  Harper’s v. 299 Issue 1794 (Nov 1999) 41-51.

Greco, Diane.  “Sticky fingers:  Response to William Gass’s ‘In Defense of the Book.’”  HypertextNow.  2003.  Eastgate Systems.  18 Nov. 2004.  <http://www.eastgate.com/HypertextNow/archives/Gass.html>.

Nance, Kevin, and Mike Thomas.  “The end of books?”  Chicago Sun Times Online. 22 July 2004.  (Accessed 27 Nov. 2004.) 
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/books/cst-nws-insight22_book.html>.

Steiner, George.  “The ephemeral genre and the end of literature.”  New Perspectives Quarterly.  Fall 1996.  v. 13, no. 4.  p. 46-50.

Sterne, Melvin.  “Digital Publishing:  ‘From Paper to Pixels’”.  The Medium of Publishing:  Reading, writing and editing colloquium." Clemson University, April 10 2003. PDF. Academic search premier, via UBC Library <http://www.library.ubc.ca>.

Uzanne, Octave, and A. Robida.  “The End of Books.”  HTML reproduction of an article published in Scribner’s Illustrated Monthly.  v. xvi, 1894.  University of Iowa.  (Accessed 22 Nov. 2004).  <http://www.uiowa.edu/~obermann/endofbooks/>.

Wikipedia.  “printing press.”  (Accessed 20 Nov. 2004.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press>.

Wikipedia.  "e-book.  (Accessed 20 Nov. 2004).  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-book>.


Additional Resources


"A Silicon Hemingway:  Artificial author Brutus.1 generates betrayal by bits." Science Blog. (Accessed 28 Nov. 2004).  <http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1998/C/199802590.html>.

Clark, Lawrence James.  “Hyper-what?:  Some views on reader discomfiture with hypertext fiction.”  (Accessed 18 Nov. 2004.) <http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/coverweb/clark/>.

Gillen, Shawn.  “When words become images:  Technology and the liberal arts college.”  LiberalEducation.  Summer 1998.  vol. 84 Issue 3.  p.48-56.

Monkey Shakespeare Simulator. <http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/>.

"Natural Language Generation" Intellimedia. July 01.  (Accessed 28 Nov. 2004). <http://www4.ncsu.edu/~lester/imedia/papers.html#compling>.

Sterne, Melvin.  “On Offense for the Book.  Part 2:  Digital Publishing.  ‘From Paper to Pixels.’”  CarveMagazine.  Davis, California.” p. 71-84. PDF. (Accessed 22 Nov. 2004). <http://www.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/colloquium.htm>.

Thompson, Peter L.  “Microelectronics and the muse:  The political economy of literary publishing at the beginning of the 21st century.”  PCA/ACA National Conference, April 18 2003. Athabasca University.  p. 1-12. PDF. (Accessed 27 Nov. 2004)
<http://www.google.com/search?q=peter+thompson+microelectronics&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>.

Quitner, Joshua.  “Future Shocks:  Move over, couch potato.  New technology is making room for the armchair creator.”  Time.  v. 151 Issue 22. p. 211-214. Academic Search Premier, via UBC Library <http://www.library.ubc.ca>.



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