« The eternal conference call | Main | Atmospherics »
"The Shallows": publication details
October 28, 2009
I've completed my next book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, and the manuscript - actually, the wordprocessingscript - is with the publisher, W. W. Norton, for editing and production. (The cover image below is provisional. It will be used in the publisher's catalog, but probably won't be the actual cover of the book.) The Shallows is slated to be published in North America on June 1, 2010, and if you're antsy you can preorder a copy from Amazon today. The English version of the book will also be published in the UK by Atlantic Books, and translations are currently in the works from Blessing in Germany, Seido Sha in Japan, Chungrim in Korea, Ediouro in Brazil, and CITIC in China.
Advertisement: Coming this spring: Nicholas Carr's new book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Preorder now from Amazon.
Comments
Well done Nick, that was quick! Look forward to reading it.
Best,
David
Posted by: David Elsweiler ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.roughtype.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at October 28, 2009 06:43 PM
Looks like an interesting read, but the cover is making me think that Internet users come from the shallow end of the gene pool...
Posted by: John Wunderlich at October 29, 2009 11:39 AM
Look forward to your new book Nick. I'm becoming more convinced that that the proliferation of information (as a relatively new phenomena), although provides long term value, hurts us in the short term because we don't know how to consume it - H1N1, Housing numbers, unemployment numbers, war casualty data... the general population never had access...now that we do - we need better context models. I would assume this is what (at least a subset) you are covering in your book and look forward to your insights.
Posted by: Chris Mills at October 29, 2009 11:59 AM
John Wunderlich:
>> Internet users come from the shallow end
>> of the gene pool...
Actaully, they live in it.
Posted by: Linuxguru1968 at October 29, 2009 06:01 PM
I really enjoyed you Big Switch in Korea.
Also I was impressed by 'Is Google Making Us Stupid?'.
I am looking forward to seeing your book translated in Korean even though I'm in U.S now :) (I hope many Korean will read your new book)
Posted by: Eugene Park at November 6, 2009 05:06 PM
Interesting indeed, looking forward to the key ideas inside. But I would have liked the title "What the internet is doing to our brain (singular)" better ...
Posted by: Luis Alberola at November 17, 2009 03:58 PM
Looking forward to reading it! Two questions:
1) Why does it take the publisher 6 months to publish the book?
2) I didn't see a Kindle version available on Amazon, is this planned for the same publication date?
...combining the two, maybe a Kindle version could come out right away - in Internet time - directly from the wordprocessingscript? :-)
Posted by: John F. Martin at December 26, 2009 08:28 PM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)
Nick's next book:
Nick's latest book:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
Nick's first book:
Order from Amazon
Visit book site