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- Title
What is the Future of Books and Print Journals?: Are Archival Journals and the Printed Book Obsolete?
- Authors
Ballard, Robert M.
- Abstract
There has been a documented recent decline in paper publishing in book, serial and newspaper format. This presentation will discuss the innovations in technology which led to the current state of affairs. This begins with ARPANET the predecessor of the Internet in 1969 and the free access to information which it later provided. Problems associated with hardware associated with these advances were not foreseen. Information collected in the BBC's Digital Doomsday Book in the 1980s was stored on video discs which could not be read by computers 20 years later. Yet the original Domesday Book is in "fine condition in the Public Record Office in Kew, London". This presentation will discuss the future of the book as a printed artifact, and the problems which will be the result of information in a online format only. Specifically the economics of information, who are the information providers, and what will they provide?
- Subjects
KEW (England); ENGLAND; PUBLISHING; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations periodicals; ARPANET (Computer network); PUBLIC records
- Publication
International Journal of the Book, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 3, p77
- ISSN
1447-9516
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v07i03/36794