Sherman Young

Sometime in the late twentieth century the book died. Sherman Young, passionate book lover and avid consumer and producer of digital technology, is on a mission to make book culture matter again. Shirking nostalgia and withough apology, The Book Is Dead: Long Live the Book investigates the economics and technological demands of publishing, making a case for books and reading all the while. His bold and exciting book will inspire readers, nonreaders, and publishers to put books center-stage again, even if they're not books as we know them now.

Sherman Young convenes the Multimedia Degree Program at Macquarie University in Sydney and is a founding member of the editorial board of Scan, An Online Journal of Media Arts and Culture.

Pub Date: 2008 ISBN: CLOTH:    0-86840-804-2    978-0-86840-804-0 Price: Cloth: $26.00s Subject Listing: Publishing, Cultural Studies Bibliographic information: 192 pp., 6 x 9 in. Distributed for: UNSW Press Territorial rights: North American rights only