Jeff Jarvis, num artigo publicado no The Guardian, defende que os livros impressos são um meio de comunicação ultrapassado, que pode encontrar na Internet e nas bases de dados online uma extensão capaz de lhes conferir uma nova dimensão:
Today, any medium that defines itself by its medium is in trouble: newspapers, broadcasting and books must be valued for their substance over their shape. Is a book bound paper? Or is it the ideas and information within? If there are better ways to share knowledge, why should it suffer the limitations of the page?
Books are frozen in time, yet in digital form, they can live in never-ending editions. Short of footnotes and bibliographies, books have little connection to related sources and debates; online, the simple link solves that.
Juan José García-Noblejas publica no eCuaderno uma interessante crítica ao artigo de Jarvis.
