EL 336 Portfolio 1

Welcome to my first portfolio for my second round of EL 336. So far, we’ve covered mostly assigned texts regarding the materiality of books, which was a heavily covered topic last time around in this course. Our main reading, The Late Age of Print covered a historical perspective of where books have gone since the [...]

The rise and fall of Bookstores…Striphas, (2/4)

By supplying supermarket-style shopping carts to its patrons, Barnes & Noble encouraged them to purchase more books than they otherwise could carry comfortably around the store.  –Stiphas (67)

Although this assigned reading was mostly a history lesson dealing with the death of small-town bookstores and the rapid expansion of big-box stores as well as internet [...]

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