Get Off Our Coattails, Forbes!

Forbes just (today) published an article about the future of the book. The article contradicts what they call the "conventional wisdom" that so many new media options competing for our time put the book in danger. In reality, it concludes, "People are reading more, not less. The Internet is fueling literacy. Giving books away online increases off-line readership. New forms of expression--wikis, networked books--are blossoming in a digital hothouse."

Their special report has a series of great articles dealing with everything from networked books to internet copyright issues to new social forms of writing. Basically covering many of the things we've spent the last few months discussing in class. Apparently, where Writing Machines leads, major media outlets soon follow.