---
title: 'Anxiety, Obsolescence, Etc.'
date: '2006-02-06T07:10:08-05:00'
permalink: /anxiety-obsolescence-etc/
tags:
    - internets
    - obsolescence
    - publishing
---

So the forthcoming book now has a page at [B&N.com](http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?endeca=1&isbn=0826515207&itm=8) and [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=as2&path=ASIN/0826515207&tag=plannedobsole-20&camp=1789&creative=9325). Which seems to suggest it’s actually going to come into physical being in the world at some point between now and May 30. Which is awesome.

But: I’m still waiting on the page proofs. Which means that said book still has no index.

And: I’m quite amused by B&N’s “more on this subject” classifications for the book. “American fiction -> History and criticism,” yes. “Popular culture -> United States,” of course. “Literacy -> United States,” by all means. But “Archaeology -> Guatemala”? Mighty curious what produced that link.