id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15131 Alexander, Jean The Future of the Book. Ed. Geoffrey Nunberg. Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., 1996. 306p. $45 cloth, ISBN 0-520-20450-6; $14.95 paper, ISBN 0-520-20451-4. LC 95-45441. 1997-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1799 168 48 James J. O’Donnell (“The Prag- matics of the New: Trithemius, McLuhan, Cassiodorus”) iden- tifies three periods of crisis: (1) late antiquity, when the authority of writ- ten texts was established; (2) the fif- teenth century, a period of considerable resistance to printed books; and (3) the age of Marshall McLuhan’s prophecies about the medium and the message. As a matter of fact, digiti- zation makes book publishing easier. cache/crl-15131.pdf txt/crl-15131.txt