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    Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (1994)
    Renowned literary critic Birkerts' examination of technology's effect on literature

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    AGNI, a literary magazine edited by Birkerts
    Wen Stephenson's response to the book (from Atlantic Monthly)


    Tim O'Reilly, etc., O'Reilly Radar
    O'Reilly Radar is a collective blog that "watches the alpha geeks" in order to determine emerging technology trends. O'Reilly Media, Inc., is a leading computer book publisher that also organizes important tech conferences, including the one that launched the "Web 2.0" meme. This section of the blog is specifically about the publishing industry.

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    Institute for the Future of the Book, if:book
    if:book is a blog written by members of the Institute for the Future of the Book, an innovative think tank in Brooklyn. Always thought-provoking, often pleasantly literary. Below are links to some of the Institute's recent projects.

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    Flight Paths, a collaborative novel
    The Googlization of Everything, a networked non-fiction book
    CommentPress, an add-on for the WordPress blogging system that allows readers to post paragraph-by-paragraph comments in the margins of the text


    Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, eds., The New Media Reader (2003)
    A collection of essays about the history and theory of new media.

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    Grand Text Auto, a collective blog written by the book's authors


    Geoffrey Nunberg, ed., The Future of the Book (1996)
    Anthology of papers from a seminal conference on the subject, convened by Umberto Eco and others about 13 years ago in Italy.

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    Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)
    This debut novel is often cited by theorists interested in po-po-mo, transmedia narrative.

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