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13 Mark Patinkin, “I’ll Miss Having a Newspaper in My Hands,” The Providence Journal, January
16, 2007, p. F-1.
14 Ibid.
15 Scott Donaton, “Fold The Wall Street Journal (Well, at least think about it),” Advertising Age,
July 24, 2006, p. 14.
16 Quoted in Robert Kuttner, “The Race,” Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 2007, p.
26.
17 For an amusing take on the “absurdity” of hard-copy newspaper production and
distribution, see Michael Kinsley, “Black and White and Dead All Over,” The Washington Post,
January 7, 2006, p. A-17.
18 John Morton, “Passing the Inflection Point,” Morton-Groves Newspaper Newsletter, March 15,
2007, p. 1.
19 See for instance, Steven Rattner, “Red All Over,” The Wall Street Journal, Monday,
February 19, 2007, p. A-19.
20 See especially several panels held at the <strong>Joan</strong> <strong>Shorenstein</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, October 13-14, 2006,
videos archived under news at www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/news_events/
news_archive/2006/twentieth_anniversary.htm; also David Hirschman, “Top Editors
Discuss Newspapers’ Future, and Web, at Columbia Panel,” Editor & Publisher, March 22,
2007, www.editorandpublisher.com; and Emma Trotter, “Panel Discusses Future of the
Newspaper,” The Stanford Daily, May 15, 2007, www.stanforddaily.com
21 Daniel Okrent, “The Death of Print?” www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0002/okrent.htm;
originally delivered as a speech in São Paulo, Brazil, fall 1997.
22 Price of some varieties of hand-made Japanese paper sold by the high-end paper retailer
<strong>Paper</strong> Source, as noted at the company’s store at 3019 M St. NW, Washington, DC, spring
2007.
23 Eleanor Laise, “Pushing <strong>Paper</strong>less: The Pros and Cons,” The Wall Street Journal, May 2,
2007, p. D1. For a broader view of paper’s persistence presence in the business world, see
Gary Haber, “<strong>Paper</strong> Still a Must-Have,” The News Journal (Delaware), September 11, 2006, p.
1.
24 Frank Romano, Professor Emeritus, School of Print Media, Rochester Institute of
Technology, email interview, February 15, 2007.
25 Abigail J. Sellen and Richard H. R. Harper, The Myth of the <strong>Paper</strong>less Office (Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press, 2002; reprint, 2003), pp. 7-13 (page citations are to the reprint edition).
26 Romano interview. As modern technology advances in Asia and other parts of the world,
Romano said he expects worldwide paper consumption will eventually go into decline.
27 Jack Ewing, “Where the Book Business is Humming,” Business Week, May 14, 2007, p. 50;
and Andrew Barry, “Long Live Dead Trees,” Barron’s, April 2, 2007, p. 24.
28 Paul Duguid, “Material Matters: Aspects of the Past and the Futurology of the Book,” in
The Future of the Book, ed. Geoffrey Nunberg (Berkeley, California: University of California
Press, 1996), pp. 63-102.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Sellen and Harper, p. 5.
32 “The Office of the Future,” Business Week, June 30, 1975, pp. 48-84.
33 Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), p. 7.
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