Post-Artifact Books and Publishing — by Craig Mod. — Craig Mod, June 2011 "Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal.
With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three. " The Future of the Book. Nimble Report A Razorfish report on publishing in the digital age.