{"id":2310,"date":"2019-04-28T20:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T01:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=2310"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:47","slug":"118365-print-is-dead-long-live-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/118365-print-is-dead-long-live-print\/","title":{"rendered":"118:365 | Print is dead. Long live print."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been reading students&#8217; papers all weekend, including one on open textbooks. It raises a host of amazing issues to ponder, including the roles of publishers, educators, and learners. Maybe that&#8217;s why it seemed like I saw a ton of textbook coverage on Twitter today, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-04-26-predictions-of-print-textbooks-death-remain-greatly-exaggerated\">this one on EdSurge titled &#8220;Predictions of Print Textbooks\u2019 Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noting that Bill and Melinda Gates declared \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesnotes.com\/2019-Annual-Letter\" target=\"_blank\">textbooks are becoming obsolete<\/a>\u201d in their 2019 annual letter, the article goes on to highlight why learners are saying, &#8220;Not so fast.&#8221; The article suggests that cost &#8211; including the ability to purchase used books at a fraction of the cost of the publishers&#8217; digital content &#8211; is what&#8217;s keeping print alive. However, there are other factors at play, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/?detailStory=college-students-prefer-print-long-form-reading-ebooks-research-lj-survey\">including learners&#8217; preferences for print when reading assigned narratives or for pleasure<\/a>. Whatever the reasons, it seems the Gates&#8217; declaration is (at least for now) premature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading students&#8217; papers all weekend, including one on open textbooks. It raises a host of amazing issues to ponder, including the roles of publishers, educators, and learners. Maybe that&#8217;s why it seemed like I saw a ton of textbook coverage on Twitter today, including this one on EdSurge titled &#8220;Predictions of Print Textbooks\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2310\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}