article from mit

Poking around for my 602 presentations I found this article Help or Hindrance? The History of the Book and Electronic Media by Paul Erickson that discusses McKenzie (and Darnton) and book history in the realm of new media:

"McKenzie admonished us to remember how marginal, in historical terms, the book is to the history of textual communication, and how mutable the physical form of the text can be. A continued attention to the materiality, and therefore the contingency, of the interaction with print, combined with new attention to the materiality of the experience of electronic text is one direction in which book historians can both continue to expand our knowledge of print culture and contribute to our understanding of electronic culture" (Erickson).