You might think that the trend in media is towards miniaturization – all media on your cell phone, right? And that printed books are
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Buy that Book!
Many of the same people who bemoan the lack of literacy in American society, or its general frivolity, will be the same ones that
How NYC’s Biggest Bookstore Survives in the Age of Amazon
The Strand is New York City’s most famous used bookstore; although they actually sell plenty of new books as well. Books they count as
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, and risk analyst
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a very smart man, probably a brilliant man. He is the author of The Black Swan and Antifragile: Things that
21st-century: The Dickensian Memex; or, the 19th-century roots of hypertext
Fascinating article on weaving together the role of hypertext and Dicken’s novels, two things I never expected to see on the same page. Click