The Book is dead…The role of the book in the world of the iPad

The Book is DeadLong live the book

A History of the World in 4! Slides(With apologies to Julian Barnes)

In the beginning we talkedAnd it was Good

“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in

their souls; they will cease to exercise memory

because they rely on that which is written”

Then came writingAnd it was on the wall :-)

Then came the BookAnd it was good

The Electronic AgePeople of the Screen

The Internet Age(the half slide)

TheView from 1987Knowledge Navigator

Invisible

Ubiquitous

Connected

Multimedia

Everything is online…Online is everything…

Video/TV/MoviesHundreds of thousands

Radio/PodcastsThousands of stations

MusicMillions of songs

The entire world wide web

Newspapers

Magazines

The new stuff…

Books

“Print is where books go to die”Jeff Jarvis

The Temptationof the screen

So What is a Book?

Not DeadJust Resting

Re-invention

Re-mediationLong form texts

mq library acquisitions

2005 2006 2007

New Print Books

16,651 17,535 16,764

New Electronic

Books895 22,587 68,719

http://senate.mq.edu.au/ltagenda/0308/library_report%202007.doc

one million eBooks sold

The Heavenly Library?

The best way to predict the

future is to invent it

Alan Kay