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A colleague forwarded me this video on three directions the book is taking as a result of new technology:<\/p>\n

Whatever you think of the video, I hope you find it an exciting and encouraging alternative to the future described in the title of an article in Inside Higher Ed: \u201cBook: buk n (obs.)\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Also related are an article on Google, search engines and student research habits<\/a>, an article<\/a> about DynamicBooks<\/a> and College Open Textbooks<\/a>, and ProfHacker\u2019s article<\/a> on the latest developments on the Digital Humanities web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A colleague forwarded me this video on three directions the book is taking as a result of new technology: Whatever you think of the video, I hope you find it an exciting and encouraging alternative to the future described in the title of an article in Inside Higher Ed: \u201cBook: buk n (obs.)\u201d Also related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Future of the Book<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A colleague forwarded me this video on three directions the book is taking as a result of new technology:Whatever you think of the video, I hope you find\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/the-future-of-the-book.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of the Book\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A colleague forwarded me this video on three directions the book is taking as a result of new technology:Whatever you think of the video, I hope you find\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/the-future-of-the-book.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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