This sounds like it belongs on the shelf next to "The Hummer Guide to Global Warming" and "2007 Fashion Portfolio for Telecommuters."
The site created to promote this book defends the idea of using dead trees to celebrate the end of the use of dead trees, and notes that it will be released in electronic and paper form on November 13.
Actually, I think the author is using the title to spur debate. Ben Smith and I collaborated on a cover story for BYTE titled "Is UNIX Dead?" UNIX's rapid decline to irrelevance was declared 15 years ago, just as it is now, and Ben and I wrestled with both sides of the issue. The answer? Hell, no.
A printed book about the death of print is a commentary in itself, a point that wasn't lost on the PR person who pinged me about it:
I wasn’t sure whether to send you a copy of PRINT IS DEAD: BOOKS IN OUR DIGITAL AGE, or to send you the link below to the online excerpts—but seems rather appropriate to send the latter, right?
I asked for a copy of the book. I was born a generation before cellulose intolerance.
Posted by Tom Yager on October 24, 2007 05:54 PM
