"Print is dead."
"Print is dead."
Yesterday's Shakespeare diatribe got me thinking (it also got some odd feedback) so many of you have never read Othello?
"Print is dead." The famous quote by Egon from Ghostbusters, has become more and more true. A recent convention of newspaper writers and journalists, were told that "Print is dead." The advise of the conference... get over it. Start working on delivering your journalism digitally and stop trying to save your ink-and-paper business.
I think nothing will replace holding a book but here are two awesome sites. They both contain full digital texts of thousands of books. When their copyrights expire they go up on the web! One of which I pulled yesterdays "Othello" quote from when I couldn't be positive I had it right.
Project Gutenberg - An awesome website, the oldest free source of eBooks on the net. 1600 eBooks! Rock on!
The Literature Network - Another site for online books. - 1200 Full books, 2000 short stories, and poetry by over 250 Authors. Wow!
The good news, this ain't Napster or Kazaa it's 100% legal and good reading. I'm sure there are more but these two tend to have what I need.
But when you want the real thing go here, it's where my dough goes. "Do, Ray, Egon!"
(That's symmetry baby! Beginning and ending with Ghostbusters quotes!)
posted by Trey Laminack @ 10:42 AM
3 comments
3 Comments:
thanks for the links, I can appear to work, while at the computer reading Wuthering Heights. "OK, who brought the dog"
too cool. also, i am quite impressed that you can quote both shakespeare and ghostbusters in the same blog AND make it work.
Great post. Books are books and will always be with us. But they are not the only way, nor dominate way, we will do reading. Not so sure newspapers will do as well as books... They're more like 8 track players in an ipod world.
By the way, is the "books are books" line the most insightful comment you have ever receievd? If so I'd like an award or something.
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