Is the Book Cover Dead?

Is the Book Cover Dead? - Technology Review: “A digital book has no cover,” writes Morais. “There's no paper to be bound up with a spine and protected inside a sturdy jacket. Browsers no longer roam around Borders scanning the shelves for the right title to pluck. Increasingly, instead, they scroll through Amazon's postage stamp-sized pictures, which don't actually cover anything, and instead operate as visual portals into an entire webpage of data.”

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