“Being a rabid bibliophile I am always overjoyed when I come across a book that makes me pause and have one of those light bulb moments... This is a rare and wonderful book on par with some of the masterpieces of centuries past.”
Beth Hartford, Amazon.com Top 100 Reviewer

What Every Writer Needs to Know About the Future of Publishing
Books compete with television, movies, video games and the Internet for the attention of a shrinking readership of American adults. But these same multimedia technologies can now be harnessed to inject new life into the printed word, literally create a Renaissance in book publishing. Goodbye Gutenberg provides an essential roadmap for writers looking to expand their audience and have a broader impact on our culture.

Chapters No Writer Can Afford to Miss:

 Expand Your Audience With Proven Techniques To Attract New Readers

These are just some of the hundreds of breakthrough ideas you will discover in Goodbye Gutenberg:

• The secrets used by scribes from China, Japan, Maya, India, Nepal, Islam, Egypt, Greece and Rome, and most medieval European cultures to mesmerize their readers
• How writers can use the latest findings by leading neuroscientists to attract readers on multiple levels
• How new technologies empower writers to express themselves in remarkable new ways
• Why a high school teacher with no design background created a masterpiece … and why you can too
• Talents you never thought you had… until you read this book

“Bursting with information and ideas.”
Milton Glaser, world renowned graphic designer

“Valerie Kirschenbaum may well be the pioneer of a whole new genre of 21st- century authors: the "Designer Writer," who not only produces the text of a work, but also designs the colors, graphics, layout, variations in fonts, etc.”
Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
A author of "From Ashes to Healing" and "Jewish Tales of Reincarnation

"The designer book" has the potential to become a new art form, one which stimulates both sides of the viewer's brain, weaving together text and image to create a multi- media aesthetic experience for all of us.
Ruth Henriquez Lyon

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