Codex in Crisis

"Writing published online can scroll on endlessly, but the limits imposed by a single page, by the stitching of a book, or even by the cost of paper force both authors and editors to make choices. Paper separates the wheat from the chaff. The time and resources required to publish a text like this one demand consideration in a way the tempting keystrokes of 'Post' and 'Send' never will. The printed book both refines and celebrates exceptional writing."


"On many fronts, traditional periodicals and books are making way for blogs, computer databases and other electronic formats. But magazines and books still sell a lot of copies. The current drive to digitize the written record is one of a number of critical projects in the long saga of our drive to accumulate, store, and retrieve information efficiently. It will result not in te infotopia that the prophets conjure up, but in one more in a series of new information ecologies, all of them challenging, in which readers, writers and producers of text have learned to survive and flourish."

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Codex in Crisis
Anthony Grafton
Second Edition
The Crumpled Press
ISBN 978-0-9796969-4-7

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