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Maybe the Book Doesn't Need to Be "Disrupted" in the First Place?

Some thoughts on the techno book revolution that never seems to come

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Lincoln Michel
Jan 24, 2023
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19th-century French postcard predicting the future of teaching

A dozen years ago, I was out of grad school and desperate for a job. (Ideally one I could slack off in while I wrote my novel.) I ended up in the offices of a tech startup that had big plans to use the emerging tech of ebooks to innovate, amplify, revolutionize, and fundamentally disrupt the …

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