Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time) - O'Reilly Radar

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time) - O'Reilly Radar:

"Is it heretical to speak of re-inventing the book? Hardly. Consider that before the advent of the printing press, books were made by hand. No two were alike. After the advent of the printing press, information fell on the same pages in each book, and page numbering, tables of contents, and indices became common.

Authorship materially gained in importance, and the end-product was a democratization of knowledge, not to mention a revolution in science.

To me this hearkens back to lessons learned from the way that sound transformed the motion picture industry; namely, it changed how movies were made AND changed what movies were."