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ONE of the first and most eloquent books on the transition away from the world of print to a new one dominated by digital communications came 20 years ago from the veteran literary critic Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age was funny, sad and prescient, and served as important foundation for my upcoming Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.
It makes me especially proud to have this endorsement from the great scribe:
“We’ve all had the feeling of these enormous changes — long in the making, not ‘at the last minute’ — but Scott
Timberg has the synthesis that makes them make sense. CULTURE CRASH throws a clear, defining light on the squeeze that digitally-based economies have put on our artists, the analog makers who have always defined us to ourselves. A hugely important book.” — Sven Birkerts
My book comes out from Yale University Press in January.
Do look forward to reading your forthcoming book. Books and the world around it was a simple, uncomplicated place. Open a book and you step over a threshold, a tactile world made possible by our innate understanding that In The Beginning Was The Word.
Also, while the sale of physical books have registered a decline, e-books also do not seem to notch a Year-on-year increase in their popularity.