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Geburtstag: 1970-04-06
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: USA
Wohnorte: New York, New York, USA
Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Southern California, USA
Berufe: novelist
internet marketing director
musician
Organisationen: Holtzbrinck Publishers
Kurzbiographie: Originally from Southern California, Jeff Gomez lived in Manhattan for over a decade and recently moved to Hoboken, New Jersey. He is the author of four novels, including the cult favorite Our Noise, which was published by Scribner Paperback fiction in America and Penguin in the UK. He is currently the Director of Internet Marketing for Holtzbrinck Publishers, owners of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, St. Martin's Press, Henry Holt, Picador, Tor and a number of other leading book and magazine brands. Jeff has been involved in electronic books and the world of digital reading since the industry's beginning in 1999, and he has also been a featured speaker and panelist at publishing industry events throughout North America.

--Source: Amazon.com page for Print Is Dead.

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Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age von Jeff Gomez

I am prejudiced to reading anything when it comes to print going out of print, but an open mind I try to keep as it comes to technology and our precarious future. I found this book to be well put together, and it did explain in the past, there were times when print fell into disarray, only to return at various times-stronger. I highly recommend this book for those with interest in the publishing world and an open mind to accept what's to come.

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lighten51 | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 21, 2012 |

Our Noise von Jeff Gomez

I can see why some may have reviewed this badly. It's kind of a niche book. Unless you get the band references on every page ( I've listened to a lot of them here), zines and other pop culture references, reading this might be a little bit tedious. But I'm probably one of the ideal readers for this book. I love zines but haven't been reading too many lately (probably to catch up on my books!) This book may have been more relevant to me a couple years ago. I hate when I know books shouldn't be sitting on my shelves unread as long as they go unread. They keep calling me.. "Read me now!" Though this book was written in 1994, this was more like my life in the early 2000s. It involves a bunch of 20 somethings living in the mid-90s. They are a bit angsty, and by the end of the book a lot of the characters are told to snap out of it, but it doesn't appear they do. There are a lot of main characters here, but it seemed to really work well. I never forgot who was who, which is sometimes a problem for me. Its like a treasure trove of fun pop culture references, its like a slice of the time. I love it. It's probably better to read it now for nostalgic value rather than to have read it when it was released. And I think it is really well written also. I could have lived with a bit less relationship stuff and drinking, but the pop culture references were so spot on, I wish there were more. Jeff Gomez took a big risk writing such a niche book, but it worked for me, and I'm looking forward to the sequel.… (mehr)

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booklove2 | Jul 13, 2011 |

Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age von Jeff Gomez

Jeff Gomez takes on a rather academic subject in a manner that is refreshing, avoiding the serious stuffy tones that often goes along with such publications. A quick read, as I was able to work through it in only a couple hours time at the university library.

However, I must say this book suffers from some very sloppy editing. I noted typos, errors in the works cited pages, as well as a reference at the end of the book to the first section of Print is Dead with a title which I assume was the section's working title. Perhaps this was corrected on later editions, however...… (mehr)

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francophoney | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 21, 2010 |

Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age von Jeff Gomez

Despite an intemperate opening chapter where the author vents some personal issues with people who, rather than embrace the ebook revolution, are simply content to "hug novels on bay windows on autumn days", this at times polemical work nonetheless settles down into a mostly sensible argument for a mostly digital future.
I say mostly digital because the weakest part of Jeff Gomez's argument is that he does not tackle the full range of print culture whose demise he is predicting. He also underestimates the sheer wonderful irrationality of those of us who appreciate printed books not only for their content (which cannot be deleted, mashed up or changed) but for the tactile and other pleasures they bring by virtue of them being bound paper objects.
I think the most important message in this book is not for readers (who, let's face it, can do what they want when it comes to choosing how they consume text), but for publishers of content, especially traditional book publishers. By all means give the public printed books if that's what they want, but realise that most information these days is on networks and in digital form. See this as an opportunity. Expand the possibilities of how stories are told, sold and exchanged.
Print is not be the medium of choice anymore. Maybe it is dead, or dying. But I still buy, borrow and read books. And put them on LibraryThing, a tool of Web 2.0 that, if anything, only stimulates the culture of acquiring printed books. Ironic.… (mehr)

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blackjacket | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Jul 11, 2009 |

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