The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book
“This book party in Tribeca feels like a Historic Moment, like a 1982 convention of typewriter salesmen or the hunting party of Kaiser Wilhelm II with his coterie of plumed barons in the fall of 1913 before the Great War sent their world spinning off the precipice.”
Garrison Keillor’s op-ed in the NYTimes
I’m actually pretty excited to witness the dying gasp of print. As this article sums up, it’ll probably be really soon (considering the long history of print) when bookstores become relegated to musty record stores in old malls no one visits. The kind that sells other ‘cool’, ‘vintage’ collateral material: hand-bound notebooks, typewriters, et al.
Oh, but there’s this other good point on electronic versions of magazines made here. There should be an iTunes for these instead of having 1,000 individual magazine apps.
But people’ll still buy print. Cause, y’know, having a well-stocked bookshelf is a little like having a really cool Facebook profile.
