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Bookstore, or Retail Ecosystem?
I’m on the road right now, so unfortunately I don’t have time to compose a blog post of the usual length. But since I promised last week that there’d be new content here, now, I figured it would be...
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Two Interviews
My blogging got interrupted as a result of my (very welcome) spring break travels, so apologies for not posting any new material last week. But it wasn’t just travel that kept me from writing. I’ve...
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Late Age of Print Now 50% Off!
Columbia University Press is holding its annual spring sale, and by sale, I mean S-A-L-E! All CUP titles, including The Late Age of Print, are now 50% off. (The deal is for North American orders...
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Call for Papers – Platform Politics
I’ve taken some extended time off from blogging to finish up the semester and a writing project — both of which are now wrapped up. Expect more regular content from me again, soon. For now, here’s a...
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New Writing – Working Papers in Cultural Studies
If it wasn’t clear already, I needed a little break from blogging. This past year has been an amazing one here on The Late Age of Print, with remarkable response to many of my posts — particularly...
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Cloud Control
Okay, I fibbed. Almost two months ago I promised I’d be back blogging regularly. Obviously, that hasn’t been the case — not by a long shot. My summer got eaten up with writing, travel, the...
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Cheaper Textbooks (So They Say)
I don’t often write about textbook publishing, but with the start of the new school year I thought it appropriate to say a few more words on the subject. I say more because I blogged about the...
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Updates on Algorithmic Culture
You know when you have close to 7,000 comments in your spam filter that you haven’t checked in on your blog in a while. Sigh. Sorry about that. The good news is that I’ve been busy producing a bunch...
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Algorithms Are Decision Systems
My latest interview on the topic of algorithmic culture is now available on the 40kBooks blog. It’s an Italian website, although you can find the interview in both the original English and in Italian...
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The Season for Giving
“As my bishop would say, I’m livin’ because of my givin’.” —Rev. Run ‘Tis the season for giving, and in the spirit of the season I’m giving away free downloads of The Late Age of Print. Well, maybe...
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Late Age of Print – the Podcast
Welcome back and happy new year! Okay—so 2013 is more than three weeks old at this point. What can I say? The semester started and I needed to hit the ground running. In any case I’m pleased to be...
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East Coast Code
There’s lots to like about Lawrence Lessig’s book, Code 2.0—particularly, I find, the distinction he draws between “East Coast Code” (i.e., the law) and “West Coast Code” (i.e., computer hardware and...
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Friends of Art Bookshop at Indiana University
IMPORTANT UPDATE: On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, I received an email from Laurel Cornell, President of the Indiana University Friends of Art, stating that the IU Friends of Art Bookshop ”must close...
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Free Download and Other News
Sorry, dear readers, for the precipitous falloff in posting. I was on a roll during the first two or three years of The Late Age of Print blog, but since then I’ve been overwhelmed by administrative...
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NYT on Amazon’s Prices
Just a quick post to direct your attention to an article by David Streitfeld, published on Friday, July 5th in the physical edition of the New York Times (and published online a day earlier). It...
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Countdown to the End
Fair warning: there’s just ONE WEEK LEFT to download the e-edition of The Late Age of Print. It will only cost you a tweet or a Facebook post. Beginning August 1st, 2013, if you want the book, then...
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Did You Know…
…that The Late Age of Print makes an excellent course text? With chapters on Harry Potter, Amazon.com, e-books, Oprah’s Book Club, and more, it’s chock full of relatable material for college...
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If You Liked the Cover of The Late Age of Print…
…then you’re bound to like Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed, compiled by Laura Heyenga and just out from Chronicle Books. The cover features one of Cara Barer’s striking book...
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Out from Under the Embargo
I’m delighted to report that my essay, “Performing Scholarly Communication,” is once again freely available on the open web. The piece appeared in the January 2012 issue of the journal Text and...
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Call for Papers – Rhetoric and Computation
If you’re interested in algorithmic culture, etc., then you might want to consider submitting to this special issue of Computational Culture—an excellent, peer-reviewed open access journal. Call for...
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