The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control

The economic downturn has inspired an upswing in writing about the books as consumer objects: they are, depending upon the author, dead, dying, sure to survive or about to be digitally resurrected. Into this conversation comes Ted Striphas’s  The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control, available both in hard cover and as a Creative Commons e-book, carrying neither hysteria nor sentimentalism.