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In Praise of Paper: Cultural Prejudice and the Electronic Book Market in Spain

In: Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society

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  • José Luis González-Quirós

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As history has clearly shown us, the introduction of any new technology sparks negative reactions—often because errors are made or promises take too long to materialize, among other reasons. The case of dedicated reading devices and how they have been received in Spain is marked by a number of rather peculiar features, however. Among them is a group of arguments to which I would like to call attention: arguments attempting to show that reading, and culture itself, could incur certain risks if the dedicated devices come to be very widely accepted and/or if new forms of reading arise that have the potential to ruin in-print publishing businesses.

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  • José Luis González-Quirós, 2010. "In Praise of Paper: Cultural Prejudice and the Electronic Book Market in Spain," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Phillip Kalantzis-Cope & Karim Gherab-Martín (ed.), Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society, chapter 14, pages 352-354, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-29904-7_55
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230299047_55
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