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  Re: What Are Books?

  A Late Addition

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  Ted Striphas Indiana University, Dept of Communication & Culture

  Sunday, December 6, 2009 — 4:16 pm

  reducing their weight and hence to minimize shipping costs.  There's a possible claim to be made here ...
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  Re: "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book

  I like to believe probable!

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  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  Thursday, December 3, 2009 — 4:33 pm

  another. All of these possibilities are often left out of our conversations regarding the potential ... employ them and integrate them into preexisting culture. I’m not sure it would be as easy for me to fall ...
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  Re: The Selling of Bookselling

  Apples and Oranges and Fruit

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  Ted Striphas Indiana University, Dept of Communication & Culture

  Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 9:14 pm

  Thanks for the comment, Elizabeth.  I suppose it would be possible and perhaps desirable to, as ...
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  Re: The Selling of Bookselling

  When Superstores Collide

  By

  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 9:01 pm

  possible to expose particularities of mass-cultural institutions by comparing them with each other? ...
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  "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book

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  Kathleen Fitzpatrick Michigan State University

  December 02, 2009

  3 comments

  "Possible or Probable?": An Imagined Future of the Book screen ebook book Curator's ... Note "Possible ou Probable?," a video produced by the French publishing group Editis, ... presents a fascinating set of possible futures for reading devices. (Don't worry if you don't ...
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  What Are Books?

  By

  Lisa Gitelman New York University

  December 02, 2009

  5 comments

  from Jay David Bolter via Ted Striphas. I should emphasize, I’m not trying to relegate the printed book ...
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  Re: How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as screens on screen

  Instant consumption.

  By

  Kathryn Heintzman Queen's University

  Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 5:46 am

  relationship to work play into the conditions of possibility for the Kindle to exist? With increasingly ... a wealth of knowledge with them with little effort.   By selling the possibility of downloading whole books ...
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  Books as Screens

  November 30, 2009 to December 04, 2009
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  How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as screens on screen

  By

  Elizabeth Lenaghan Northwestern University

  November 29, 2009

  8 comments

  How do you hide behind a Kindle? Using books as screens on screen ebook book Barcelona Curator's Note The popularity of the latest generation of ebook devices has not been profitable for everyone. Recent articles in the New York Times and Vanity Fair ...
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  The Selling of Bookselling

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  Ted Striphas Indiana University, Dept of Communication & Culture

  November 24, 2009

  6 comments

  The Selling of Bookselling You've Got Mail superstores mass culture, independent bookselling, bookstores Curator's Note Bookselling isn’t just about selling books, it’s also about selling bookselling. The same might well be said of the represent ...

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