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Product Description: Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books • Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of “free” reading • Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brave new world The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations...read more

Paperback:

9781594772436 | Inner Traditions, March 2, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Examines the pitfalls, perils, and promises offered by the digitization of books • Reveals the danger digitized books pose to the very idea of “free” reading • Poses the questions society should be asking itself before heedlessly embracing this brave new world The digitization of books is an immense blessing for the exchange and diffusion of knowledge, enabling access in even the most remote locations.

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Takes you on a journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times, showing how the urge to write, read and collect books has always gone hand in hand with the impulse to destroy them. This work also reveals a danger facing libraries with the digitalization of books threatening both the existence of the physical book and the idea of reading for free.

Hardcover:

9780500513842 | Gardners Books, September 24, 2007, cover price $31.60 | About this edition: Takes you on a journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern times, showing how the urge to write, read and collect books has always gone hand in hand with the impulse to destroy them.

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'A historical survey of the destruction of knowledge from ancient Babylon and China to modern times'--Provided by publisher.

Hardcover:

9781594771675 | Inner Traditions, August 13, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: 'A historical survey of the destruction of knowledge from ancient Babylon and China to modern times'--Provided by publisher.

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