{"id":26746,"date":"2010-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/the-myths-of-the-paper-book\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:36:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:36:32","slug":"the-myths-of-the-paper-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/the-myths-of-the-paper-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The myths of the paper book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL MOMENTO M\u00c1S REVELADOR DE LA Feria del Libro de Bogot\u00e1 fue el saludo de Nicholas Negroponte, el gur\u00fa del internet, al comenzar su conferencia de invitado especial:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgradezco que me haya invitado el gremio editorial, pese a que vengo a decir que el libro de papel se va acabar en cinco a\u00f1os\u201d (El Tiempo, 18-08-10).<\/p>\n<p>Me pregunto qu\u00e9 habr\u00e1n pensado los asistentes al evento: editores, autores, profesores y lectores cuyas vidas han girado alrededor de los libros impresos. Ojal\u00e1 se hayan dado cuenta de que, literal y figurativamente, viven en un mundo de papel. Un universo en declive que resulta rar\u00edsimo para los j\u00f3venes que nacieron con el internet, hace 18 a\u00f1os. El mundo de los libros caros, dif\u00edciles de conseguir y apilados en inm\u00f3viles bibliotecas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Profesor, \u00bfusted colecciona libros? \u2014pregunt\u00f3 un asombrado estudiante al ver la biblioteca de uno de mis colegas en su oficina.<\/p>\n<p>En buena hora, el gremio editorial est\u00e1 despertando. Aunque diminuto, por fin hubo un pabell\u00f3n de la Feria dedicado a los libros electr\u00f3nicos. T\u00edmidamente, algunas editoriales est\u00e1n vendiendo sus obras en medio digital, en portales como Publidisa, Libranda o la Librer\u00eda de la U. Y muchos autores y organizaciones est\u00e1n colgando sus textos gratuitamente en sus p\u00e1ginas virtuales o en sitios como Scribd.<\/p>\n<p>Pero el mundo de papel se resiste a cambiar, alimentado por mitos que, en otras latitudes, ya han sido derribados. Ve\u00e1moslos.<\/p>\n<p>Mito 1: los libros digitales quiebran a las editoriales. Falso. Basta ver el negocio que Amazon y las editoriales han hecho con este formato, cuyas ventas acaban de superar las de impresos de pasta dura. Al mismo tiempo, han subido las ventas de libros impresos, lo que muestra que los dos formatos pueden convivir.<\/p>\n<p>Mito 2: los libros electr\u00f3nicos son para una \u00e9lite. Mentira. Si hay un producto elitista en un pa\u00eds pobre como Colombia, es el libro impreso. Los de literatura rara vez bajan de $40.000, y los acad\u00e9micos, de $50.000. \u00bfQu\u00e9 porcentaje de la poblaci\u00f3n puede darse ese lujo? \u00bfQu\u00e9 estudiante puede ahorrar esa cantidad para no recurrir a la fotocopia?<\/p>\n<p>Los libros digitales son la respuesta legal y democr\u00e1tica a la fotocopia. Como evitan la impresi\u00f3n y el transporte, resultan mucho m\u00e1s baratos, como los de Amazon o iBooks. Adem\u00e1s, podr\u00e1n ser adquiridos por cap\u00edtulos, como las canciones. En lugar de fotocopiarlo, los estudiantes podr\u00e1n bajar un cap\u00edtulo por $1.000. Y los precios de los lectores digitales caen cada d\u00eda: el mismo Negroponte anuncia que en un par de a\u00f1os su laboratorio de M.I.T. vender\u00e1 una tableta estilo iPad por $130.000.<\/p>\n<p>Mito 3: la generaci\u00f3n del internet no lee. Este es el embuste mayor. Seg\u00fan un estudio reciente de la Universidad de Stanford, los j\u00f3venes de la era virtual leen y escriben m\u00e1s y mejor que los que crecimos con los libros de papel. Son la generaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s textual de la historia: la de los blogs, los tweets, los correos electr\u00f3nicos, el Facebook y los mensajes de texto. De ah\u00ed que la directora del estudio concluya que \u201cestamos en medio de una revoluci\u00f3n de la lectura y la escritura que no hemos visto desde la civilizaci\u00f3n griega\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Eso s\u00ed: es una generaci\u00f3n mucho m\u00e1s exigente. Como lo dice Clive Thompson en la revista Wired \u2014cuya versi\u00f3n digital es el modelo del futuro editorial\u2014, si los j\u00f3venes est\u00e1n acostumbrados a escribir para una audiencia abierta, \u00bfc\u00f3mo no se van a aburrir con un trabajo que s\u00f3lo lee el profesor? Si toda la vida han saltado entre el texto, el video y la imagen, \u00bfc\u00f3mo van a disfrutar un libro universitario impreso, que desaprovecha todo el potencial de los materiales de multimedia?<\/p>\n<p>La era virtual no es una amenaza para el libro, sino su gran oportunidad. En ella dominar\u00e1 el libro digital, sin que desaparezca el impreso. Ojal\u00e1 los personajes del mundo de papel terminen de entenderlo pronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MOMENT FAR more revealing of the Bogot\u00e1 Book Fair was the greeting of Nicholas Negroponte, the internet guru, when beginning his lecture as special guest:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","medium-el-espectador-en","post-scope-aaa-not-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The myths of the paper book - Dejusticia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The myths of the paper book\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE MOMENT FAR more revealing of the Bogot\u00e1 Book Fair was the greeting of Nicholas Negroponte, the internet guru, when beginning his lecture as special guest:\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Dejusticia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-08-23T05:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-04-11T12:36:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@dejusticia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"C\u00e9sar Rodr\u00edguez Garavito\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#\/schema\/person\/e11b9e1e64bff54675fcc20f712051d0\"},\"headline\":\"The myths of the paper book\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-08-23T05:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-04-11T12:36:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\"},\"wordCount\":688,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2010\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/los-mitos-del-libro-de-papel\/\",\"name\":\"The myths of the paper book - 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