The case for books
Subtitle: past, present, future
By: Robert Darnton.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781586488260
Subjects: Google Library Project; Books -- Social aspects; Books -- History; Books and reading; Communication in learning and scholarship -- Technological innovations; Research libraries -- Forecasting; Scholarly electronic publishing; Library materials -- Digitization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Google and the future of books; title: The information landscape; title: The future of libraries; title: Lost and found in cyberspace; title: E-books and old books; title: Gutenberg-e; title: Open access; title: A paean to paper; title: The importance of being bibliographical; title: The mysteries of reading; title: The history of book.