this week's book is Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
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If you have this book, PLEASE populate Quotes on GoodReads and WikiQuotes
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/78240986-open-democracy-reinventing-popular-rule-for-the-twenty-first-century
Currently there are ZERO quotes from this book on the Internet!
University of Toronto lessons on media studies, media ecology:
“The future of the book is very much in the order of book as information service. Instead of the book as a fixed package of repeatable and uniform character suited to the market with pricing—and so on—the book is increasingly taking on the character of service, an information service, and the book as an information service is tailor-made and custom-built.” — Marshall McLuhan
delivered on May 7, 1966 at The Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. McLuhan titled his lecture “The Medium Is the Massage”
67 minute audio lecture on this page:
https://www.themediumisthemassage.com/the-lecture/
People are often more interested in book quotes than reading an entire book. People go to the public library and use a Xerox / copy machine to take a few pages, not the entire book. Please try to include the page number and chapter title when quoting a book. Thank you.