Shyamala Reddy works for a San Francisco-based magazine aimed at managers and other people in high-technology industries. This article originally appeared in 1996 in Virtual City, a magazine (no longer in print) launched by Newsweek for people interested in the Internet.
"The Once and Future Book" (Composing Cyberspace p. 323) is not available online.
1. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of print books versus electronic publishing, according to Reddy? If you're reading Composing Cyberspace both in paper and online, test Reddy's comparison with your own comparison.
2. Reddy maintains that "certain kinds of information do better in digital form than in print" (¶ 18). Which kinds of information does she mean, and why? If you have read any digital or online books, how does your experience compare with Reddy's analysis?
3. Why, according to Reddy, will books continue to coexist with electronic publishing? To what extent are you persuaded by this argument?
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