Update Announcements by Craig Stark #153, 1 February 2011

Entering some new territory today - well, not so much new as previously unaddressed at BookThink. Today I look at the future of the printed book from a different perspective. In the past year or so, often, I've suggested means of going forward in bookselling based on the value of the printed book either as an object (antiquarian bookselling, so to speak) or as a source of content not likely to be digitized anytime soon. But are these the only strengths the printed book possesses? Not by a long shot, and perhaps what follows will give you reason to believe that the end of bookselling as we know it is not as imminent as you might think.