According to Ludovico the first announcement of "the death of print" was in 1894.
 The book looks at how since that time independent bookshops, large bookshop chains, newspapers and magazines have to compete with Internet-based publishing or be wiped out.
 Ludovico explains how physical print publishing can survive and why he believes it is important that it should.
 He does this by tying together the current situation and future prospects of physical print publishing.
 It is explained that not every print technology was designed to print millions of copies.
 Spirit duplicators, photocopiers, and print-on-demand publishing allowed access to print for smaller print runs of projects with less mass appeal.

Artists and political groups pushed the technology with pamphlets, unlicensed newspapers, the alternative press, fanzines, books, and journals.
 Ludovico establishes that due to how technology and the internet present the problem of filtering rather than access.
 This is not the only problem that he explains the print interface does not have.
 This Ludovico considers in depth when looking at eBooks which simulate print ever more closely which, according to a reviewer, confirms his argument that print is the better interface.
 This is also because the book explains that eBooks have an environmental impact that makes books look more appealing, and suffer all the problems of censorship and technological obsolescence that print now does not.

The reviewer of Furtherfield.org believes that Ludovico certainly has the credibility that “lends his conclusions a context and authority that mere theory might lack.”
 This is because Ludovico is part of numerous art projects, events, and interventions that have placed him in the changes in publishing and textual media occurring over this period.
 He feels that printed materials are better interfaces, archives, and art objects than purely digital objects and therefore post-digital print and original print have to merge to spawn new models for carrying and spreading unprecedented amounts of information and culture.
According to Ludovico the first announcement of "the death of print" was in 1894.  The book looks at how since that time independent bookshops, large bookshop chains, newspapers and magazines have to compete with Internet-based publishing or be wiped out.  Ludovico explains how physical print publishing can survive and why he believes it is important that it should.  He does this by tying together the current situation and future prospects of physical print publishing.  It is explained that not every print technology was designed to print millions of copies.  Spirit duplicators, photocopiers, and print-on-demand publishing allowed access to print for smaller print runs of projects with less mass appeal.
Artists and political groups pushed the technology with pamphlets, unlicensed newspapers, the alternative press, fanzines, books, and journals.  Ludovico establishes that due to how technology and the internet present the problem of filtering rather than access.  This is not the only problem that he explains the print interface does not have.  This Ludovico considers in depth when looking at eBooks which simulate print ever more closely which, according to a reviewer, confirms his argument that print is the better interface.  This is also because the book explains that eBooks have an environmental impact that makes books look more appealing, and suffer all the problems of censorship and technological obsolescence that print now does not.
The reviewer of Furtherfield.org believes that Ludovico certainly has the credibility that “lends his conclusions a context and authority that mere theory might lack.”  This is because Ludovico is part of numerous art projects, events, and interventions that have placed him in the changes in publishing and textual media occurring over this period.  He feels that printed materials are better interfaces, archives, and art objects than purely digital objects and therefore post-digital print and original print have to merge to spawn new models for carrying and spreading unprecedented amounts of information and culture.
Post-Digital Print