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Originally Posted by nekokami
I just happened across this article in Science News about the use of mathematics to study the popularity and evolution of novels: http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/...6/mathtrek.asp
The researcher is looking forward to more novels being available in digital form.  |
Just looking through his graphs, that emphasize how long books have been with us... through the ages of movies, radio and TV, and into the Internet... is pretty much all you need to refute Roth's opinion about the age of books coming to an end, I'd say. Books aren't going anywhere.
The article does suggest, however, that books may be due for a sea-change, or evolution of sorts. Hmm... maybe to digital formats?
