| Description |
1 videodisc (75 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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Fifty-five minutes plus 20 additional minutes of exclusive outtakes. |
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"Web to Book: Drop Dead" -- fun but jarring, this was one of the headlines amid the growing barrage of news stories and books about the imminent death of the written word and the inevitable migration of our personal and collective knowledge and memory to machines. Is the book as we know it really dead? Is the question even important in an always-on, digital world? (From website.) |
| Credits |
Edited by Tom Patterson. |
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Narrated by Meryl Streep ; featuring Jeff Bezos, Scott turow, Ray Bradbury, Jeffrey Toobin, Jane Friedman, Alberto Manguel and Robert Darnton. |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Subject |
Electronic books.
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Electronic publishing.
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Books and reading.
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Publishers and publishing.
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Books -- History.
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Books. |
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Books and reading. |
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Electronic books. |
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Electronic publishing. |
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Publishers and publishing. |
| Genre |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bezos, Jeffrey.
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Bourkoff, Aryeh.
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Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012.
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Darnton, Robert.
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Denn, Morton, producer.
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Friedman, Jane.
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Manguel, Alberto.
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Patterson, Tom, editor.
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Roumani, Vivienne, director.
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Streep, Meryl, narrator.
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Toobin, Jeffrey.
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Turow, Scott.
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