Hamlet’s BlackBerry, the book

New York Times bestseller – now in paperback!

What’s the Digital Age really about?  How can we make the most of it?

Readers everywhere are finding answers in one of the year’s most talked-about books. Lively, original, and entertaining, Hamlet’s BlackBerry offers a bold new approach to digital life, one that individuals, families, businesses and other organizations can use to make better, smarter use of today’s technologies.

The Katie Couric interview | The PBS NewsHour piece
The Wall Street Journal review | The New York Times review
The Good Morning America piece | The Diane Rehm Show interview
The NPR Morning Edition piece | The New Yorker piece

Latest News:

• Powers at Aspen/Socrates: “Making Sense of a Big Data World“
• How Our Devices Are Affecting Our Relationships (WBUR Public Radio/Boston)
• USA Today: Powers on devices, productivity and profits
• “What RIM Could Learn From Hamlet’s BlackBerry” (WIRED)
• Getting the Most out of Digital Life: A Conversation with William Powers
• “7 Must-Read Books on the Future of the Internet” (BRAINPICKER)
• Family life in a connected world: It’s all about Balance (BIG IDEAS clip)
• Powers speaks at Google, Facebook, and South by Southwest

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Praise for Hamlet’s BlackBerry:

“Incisive. . . Refreshing. . . Compelling.”
Publishers Weekly

“A brilliant and thoughtful handbook for the Internet age – why we have this screen addiction, its many perils, and some surprising remedies that can make your life better.”
Bob Woodward

Hamlet’s BlackBerry “changed my life . . . and when was the last time you said that about a book?”
Laura Lippman, New York Times-bestselling novelist, Salon

“[E]ven a jaded reader is likely to be won over by Hamlet’s BlackBerry.”
David Harsanyi, The Wall Street Journal

“Powers . . . moves beyond the debate over whether technology makes us smarter or dumber and focuses on what really matters: how do we learn to cope with it.”
Niraj Chokshi, The Atlantic

“William Powers, brave in intent and wise in argument, offers in these pages an oasis of serenity and sanity.”
Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman and Atlantic