COVER STORY: Inside the Ebook Test Kitchen
A look at what's cooking on the cutting edge of ebook technology.
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Change: A Two-Way Street
As the nature of what a book is evolves, so, too, will society's relationship with the book. It's important to remember, says Ted Striphas, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Indiana University, that with every perceived advance there is a tradeoff.
For instance, while society gained enormously with the advent of the printing press, the increased availability of books led to more extensive reading at the sacrifice of intensive reading. "People tended to read more intensively," says Striphas. "They'd read one, two or three books in a lifetime and read them intimately. They became masters of those texts.
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