The Gutenberg Elegies, Three Decades On

In 2006, Birkerts re-released this book with a new introduction, in which he said he was still worried about the fate of books and reading but admitted to making "all kinds of accommodations in the past decade, integrating the computer into various facets of my life-to the point where I now live with one foot firmly planted in the new world." What Defendants could not do was evade the Copyright Act altogether to power their lucrative commercial endeavor, taking whatever datasets of relatively recent books they could get their hands on without authorization." For starters, Facebook, X, Snapchat, and the like are all in decline, with users unplugging in droves in what's called a "digital detox." [...]in some industries, old-school approaches are on the rise. According to data from Statista, revenue from ebook sales will reach $17.7 billion