{"id":1958,"date":"2008-01-24T14:56:33","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T19:58:16","slug":"project-gutenberg-the-killer-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Project Gutenberg: The Killer App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Gutenberg:About\">Michael Hart<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, wrote a provocative answer to Willard&#8217;s question (Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 495) about the &#8220;killer-app&#8221; of digital humanities that I reproduce here verbatim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>True, you can&#8217;t convince the skeptics. . .you still can&#8217;t say that digitial music has wiped out analog music because a few places still make analog records which are really better, not that a true skeptic needs those last few words.<\/p>\n<p>Even when there are more eBooks than paper books, no way.<\/p>\n<p>Even when there are 100 times as many eBooks, not happening.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going to matter what they SAY about eBooks, reality is going in that direction and paper books will never reverse that trend, simply because you can \/OWN\/ MILLIONS OF eBOOKS IN A TERABYTE DRIVE [costing under $200].<\/p>\n<p>Before Gutenberg the average person could own zero books.<\/p>\n<p>Before Project Gutenberg an average person could own 0 libraries.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s literally as simple as that.<\/p>\n<p>The cost\/benefit ratio for eBooks is too much better than paper.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks!!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is he right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Hart of Project Gutenberg, wrote a provocative answer to Willard&#8217;s question (Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 495) about the &#8220;killer-app&#8221; of digital humanities that I reproduce here verbatim: True, you can&#8217;t convince the skeptics. . .you still can&#8217;t say that digitial music has wiped out analog music because a few places still make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1958\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project Gutenberg: The Killer App<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities-computing","category-literature","category-markup-and-text-representation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}