Class Final

1^st Source: Distand, M. (2011). The Future of Print: The Book. Feliciter, 57(5) 182-184

I went to the library website and went into Ebsco and search the full title and the text pulled up. It took me all of 30 seconds with my newly discovered knowledge of databases.

A: He is a Director of Libraries in Alberta; I would say he is pretty knowledgeable on the printed word.

S: This is a periodical that is put out by the library association in Canada.

P: News of the library association, its main purpose is to inform.

E: I think he was very even on presenting the facts.

C: It hit all the high points, with enough extra interesting fun facts to keep me reading.

T: The article was publish in October (2011) so it is fairly current.

2^nd Source: Morrison, E (2011, August 22). Are books dead, and can authors survive? The Guardian

I went onto google searched the title in its entirety,  and it was the first thing that popped up, I verified that is was the right guy and it was.

A: He is an award winning author, and he has published 3 novels.

S: The Guardian is a daily newspaper in Britain

P: The article was written to inform the public about the potential crisis writer’s face

E: I thought that he was not very even he presented the article in a way that was slanted in writers favor.

T: Published August 2011

Summary-

I really enjoyed the first article The future of Print: The book.  I thought that it was a very well written piece that seemed to go straight down the middle for the most part. I liked that it wasn’t dry and it kept you wanting to read. I liked how he presented his facts. I particularly liked the part

 “After Amazon unwittingly sold early Kindle owners a title for which it lack legal rights, its purchasers discovered it deleted by remote control. Ironically, the confiscated e-book was Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

I also liked how he made the argument that the books and e-books can co-exist.  He mentioned in the article that “E-books will undoubtedly dominate the market for large reference books, such as encyclopedias, and anything else that is regularly revised and updated, as well as for scholarly journals, if not also popular magazines.”  I like the idea that the two can both be utilized. I hate the thought of telling my kids back in my day, when we had books.

I did not care for the second article, and after doing research, knowing he is an author his dislike of what the publishing companies it makes a lot of sense. The thing is that of course the jobs that were of yesterday have faded out, there are a lot of the factory jobs and other jobs that have been retired due to the advancements in technology. Maybe there won’t be highly paid writers in the future, but history shows us that there are not many in the past either. Also even if the printed work is not being done as much doesn’t mean there will be a decline in reading, I think if anything people will read more.