Book Publishers Haven't Lived Up to the Power of the New Media

BOSTON, Feb. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Award winning photographer, Jack Dziamba (www.icron.us) has launched a new blog called whitherthebook. "Thus far, e-readers have simply been a static version of the printed book, much akin to the invention of the paperback," Dziamba said. The blog can be found at whitherthebook.wordpress.com

Dziamba said, "Thus far, the e reader is simply the continuation of the reproduction of the printed page by other means." His post for the week is titled, ""IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BOOK, OR THE KINDLE, OR THE NOOK,"

He writes that, "All of the hand wringing in countless articles, symposia, blogs, and posts about the future of the Book is akin to the howling 35,000 years ago about keeping 2,000 pounds of cave wall because it was Art."

"Just as the iPod changed the shape of the music industry, the Fine Art book industry is on the brink of a paradigm change," he said. "The current e readers are simply the Palm Pilot blown up to a bigger size." Dziamba said.

Dziamba says in his blog that, "THE BOOK, both print and even current versions of the electronic reader are nearly artifacts. Book publishing is in the death throes of the last century, bound up in static, linear publications.

At the same time, the technology of the new media has developed to such a degree of creativity and innovation that Alice Rawsthorn commented in the New York Times on November 28, 2010 that,

These devices offer thrilling possibilities for us to do much more than read words on a screen, and it is deeply disappointing that so few designers and publishers are embracing them."

His blog cites the Van Gogh Museum, www.vangoghmuseum.org, and the Van Gogh Letters, www.vangoghletters.org, as two spectacular responses to the developments in the New Media for Fine Art. Both the Museum and the Letters take full advantage of the innovations of the new media to exceed all expectations.

A key feature of the blog is the "Fine Art in the New Media Matrix" which catalogues and comments on New Media developments. The Matrix will be continuously updated. Dziamba believes that The Matrix will become a major resource and reference.

Media Contact: Jack Dziamba Icron Image International, Inc., 617.504.9741, jack@icron.us News distributed by PR Newswire iReach: https://ireach.prnewswire.com

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