Hasta La Ideas

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pemPrint is dying. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused./em /p

pAs you catch wind of the arrival of the a href=”http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad”iPad pre-order/a (breathe, breathe), we’d like to point out a wonderful article on a topic dear to Core77: a href=”http://craigmod.com/journal/ipad_and_books/”emBooks in the age of the iPad/em/a, by Craig Mod (thank you, a href=”http://shopgoldenage.com/_blog/All_Culture_All_The_Time/post/Books_in_the_Age_of_the_iPad/”Golden Age/a). /p

pInstead of mourning the loss of the printed page with the arrival of the iPad, Craig points out that it may actually improve the publishing industry by digitizing much of the junk and making room for the stuff that actually ought to be printed, and with care. And anyway, who said there’s only be one way to consume written media in the first place? Why not a diversity of ways to experience the written word?/p

pHere’s Craig:/p

blockquoteWe’re losing the throwaway paperback.
The airport paperback.
The beachside paperback.

pWe’re losing the dregs of the publishing world:disposable books. The book printed without consideration of form or sustainability or longevity. The book produced to be consumed once and then tossed. The book you bin when you’re moving and you need to clean out the closet./p

pOnce we dump this weight we can prune our increasingly obsolete network of distribution. As physicality disappears, so too does the need to fly dead trees around the world./pa href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/books_in_the_age_of_the_ipad__16157.asp”(more…)/a
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