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Originally Posted by ltamote
Incidentally, the University of Chicago Press, which published this book, offers a free electronic book each month. The electronic version of this book by Johns was given away on February 1 (one day only!); their current free offer is another book by Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, which is referenced in the article. For those interested in registering, the link is: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ebooks/free_ebook.html. |
I purchased Johns'
The Nature of the Book in hardcover a couple of weeks ago and just finished reading it. It is scheduled to be the subject of a review at my
blog sometime this week. It is a dense book, very scholarly, and not written in a style that makes it easy reading. But it is a book well worth reading, especially his first chapter where he describes what makes a print book so different from its predecessors (his book was written before the advent of the ebook age, but his reasons apply to ebooks as well). For anyone interested in books as books,
The Nature of the Book is a worthwhile read.