Michael Suarez on Digital Books & the Future of Bibliographic Knowledge

If you can bear with the stodgy Grolier Club introduction, Michael Suarez, editor of The Oxford Companion to the Book, weighing in on the difference between the physical and the digital book is as good an explanation as I’ve heard of the most substantial problem facing book people today.

The Great Book Robbery

Biblioklepts.

The Bin Laden Library

“Gone but definitely not forgotten (especially by Obama). Nice library. Nice Kalash. Love the Kandahari guerrillero fashion. In the future he will be the subject of Uomo Vogue spreads.”  Pepe Escobar