Comments on the first edition:
Bolter has provided a superbly clear, thorough, and theoretically sophisticated discussion of the computer as a medium for writing, as contextualized within the history of writing.
-Journal of Communication
Comments on the first edition:
This is a notable book, essential to a balanced understanding of the role played by the computer in the development of literature and thought in our time.
-American Scientist
Comments on the first edition:
What makes this a fascinating study is the way in which the author throughout compares and contrasts electronic writing and its tacit presuppositions with the values and strategies of earlier writing technologies.
-Religious Studies Review
The second edition of Writing Space will serve as a touchstone text for readers who haven't read the first edition and perhaps would be most useful in undergraduate or graduate classes that focus on the historical context of hypertext studies.
-Technical Communication Quarterly
Praise for the first edition:
This book combines a deep understanding of technology and of the history of literature and culture, making it unique in depth, breadth, understanding--and therefore, unique in its importance to all of us, be we humanist, technologist, or just everyday reader.
-Donald Norman
University of California at San Diego; author, The Design of Everyday Things
Praise for the first edition:
It may well be that Writing Space does for electronic writing what Gutenberg did for print.
-Brian Eno
in Art Forum
