theorywatch

And here’s another amazing gift to the LIS practitioner and scholar community: Ted Striphas, of the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana, has put his new book, The Late Age of Print, online for free. Not only is this a fascinating look at the book publication and distribution world as it evolves in this “late age of print:” he’s also blogging about some intriguing ideas, such as reviving the idea of making the right to read constitutionally protected. So this is going straight to my “right to read right now” pile (oh, yes, I’m buying the print copy of the book: we need to support university presses such as Columbia that publish this kind of work!)