One of the blogs I read regularly is Jeff Gomez's Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age . He recently wrote a book identically entitled; it'll be published next month and I've pre-ordered it from Amazon. I am perfectly aware that I can start reading excerpts from the book online, but I'd rather not. I want a broad, lengthy, coherent argument about why I should be rejoicing about the transition from printed books to electronic books, and I'm trusting that Jeff Gomez's book in its entirety will give me precisely that. Traditionally, that's what books are good at. Books excel at delivering a sustained argument that can't be handled adequately in 1,000 or 5,000 or even 10,000 words. I want the 100,000-word version with the depth and detailed analysis possible only in a book. I'm looking forward to Jeff Gomez's book so much because I sometimes find his blog entries somewhat baffling. I always expect there to be another paragraph or two that provides a bit more clarification. One of the benefits Read More...