Nicholas Carr, Don't Burn Your Books—Print Is Here to Stay Article paru dans The Wall Wtreet Journal , 5 janvier 2013. "The e-book had its moment, but sales are slowing. Readers still want to turn those crisp, bound pages. Lovers of ink and paper, take heart. Reports of the death of the printed book may be exaggerated. (...) How attached are Americans to old-fashioned books? Just look at the results of a Pew Research Center survey released last month. The report showed that the percentage of adults who have read an e-book rose modestly over the past year, from 16% to 23%. But it also revealed that fully 89% of regular book readers said that they had read at least one printed book during the preceding 12 months. Only 30% reported reading even a single e-book in the past year (...)" Nicholas G. Carr est l'auteur de The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (2010) et du célèbre article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (2008). Lire l'intégralité de l'article : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323874204578219563353697002.html
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