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Are books — electronic or not — becoming "fringe media"?

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2010

Kevin Kelleher of GigaOM believes that “books are becoming a fringe media.” I say: true for non-fiction, not so much for fiction.

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Prefaces, Prologues and Paratext

By Kristopher Nelson in the Spring of 2007

A preface or prologue is a sort of pretext to the writing that follows it; it sets up the reader, as it were, to encounter the text that it introduces. It attempts to mediate then, between the world of the … Continued

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