Brooklyn Book Festival Panelists Agree The Book Is Evolving, Not Dying
While the Brooklyn Book Festival was much more about print than about eBooks, in a session called “The Transformation of the Book” poets and artists discussed the evolution of the book.
Poet/critic John Yau spoke about using a wiki to edit a recent book. “The idea of the book is more fluid, as it becomes a part of a mass media communication,” he said. “The book is more of a communicative gesture these days.”
For Mendi Lewis Obadike, an author/artist who works in digital media, said that a book is not about the physical object, but rather the collection of ideas that it contains.
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