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ARE BOOKS IN DANGER ? Edited by Michael Maiello and Michael Noer THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM WOULD SAY YES More and more media compete for our time. The Web, in particular, with its emphasis on textual snippets, skimming and collaborative creation, seems ill-suited to nurture the sustained, authoritative transmission of complex ideas that has been the historical purview of the printed page. BUT SURPRISE —the conventional wisdom is wrong. Our special report on books and the future of publishing is brimful of reasons to be optimistic. To read what they are, go to www.forbes.com/books. Return to the Words of Wisdom, Trivia menu..
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