Is Twitter About to Change the Literary World as We Know It?
You thought Cliff Notes were bad? Think again. This week, Penguin books announced that it had bought the rights to a book, written by two 19-year old university students, that reduces great works of literature into 140 character sentences on Twitter. Do I hear James Joyce turning over in his grave? Penguin’s announcement comes at a time when Twitter has, undoubtedly, taken the world of communication by storm. In the past few days, we’ve witnessed the impact that the popular [...]
