English Summary/英文概要： Pundits have long foretold the imminent death of print newspapers. These claims intensified with the rise of the internet and the recent financial crisis, but they’ve accompanied every media technological development of the past 100+ years: telegrams, radio, and television were all heralded as the final nail in the coffin, yet newspapers adapted and even thrived. And they’re not going anywhere.

In Greatly Exaggerated: The Myth of the Death of Newspapers, Marc Edge dives deep into the history and finances of North American newspapers and media conglomerates particularly in the US, and comes up with a surprising conclusion: the newspaper business is far more healthy and profitable than believed. They’ve been roiled by greedy Wall Street investors, the doctrine of media “convergence,” and of course the internet, but have proved remarkably resilient in the face of it all. Greatly Exaggerated is a thoroughly informative and entertaining look at one of our most important institutions, essential reading for journalists and newspaper readers.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 专家们早就预言了报业的消亡，这些言论随着网络的崛起和经济危机的蔓延而愈演愈烈。但报业并非第一次遭遇危机，在过去的100年间，每当有像电报、广播、电视等新的媒体科技出现后，总有人认为这是击垮报业的最后一根稻草，可是报纸适应了一切改变，甚至发展得更加繁荣了。

在《夸大其词：报纸消亡之谜》中，马克•艾吉深入探究了北美报业的历史和金融状况，美国的媒体集团等，得出了一个令人惊讶的结论：报业比人们想象得要健康繁荣得多。

报业的确被华尔街贪婪的投资者、媒体集团的教条主义还有网络搅得动荡不安，但是在正面危机的过程中，报业表现出了极大的弹性和恢复力。《夸大其词》用幽默详实的语言探索了当代最重要的体系，对于杂志和报纸读者来说这都是不可多得的作品。（XAT）

MARC EDGE is a journalism educator, media critic, and blogger from Vancouver, Canada, who has taught at eight universities in four countries. He was most recently Roger Tatarian Endowed Faculty Scholar in Journalism at California State University, Fresno. Prior to that he was Head of Journalism at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji. He is the author of three books, including Asper Nation: Canada’s Most Dangerous Media Company. From 1974 to 1993, Marc was a newspaper journalist for the Vancouver Province and the Calgary Herald. After taking early retirement at age 38, Marc fulfilled a long-time dream by sailing to the South Pacific aboard his 40-foot ketch, Markenurh. He then studied for his doctorate and taught at Ohio University, winning the 2002 Dissertation Award of the American Journalism Historians Association. His dissertation was published as his first book, Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver’s Newspaper Monopoly. From 2001-04, Marc was an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of Texas at Arlington, Thompson Rivers University, and Sam Houston State University.