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06.19.08

Will you people please stop writing that ebooks will “kill publishing”? News, commentary | (1)
What is wrong with you people? You readers and authors out there who say you love books, but then wring your hands about "the future of publishing" and behave as if ebook technology is somehow anti-literacy--what is it you really love? I suspect it's the book as an object, not as a device to transmit the written word. Are you avid readers, or simply book fetishists? The latest nonsensical fear about the future of publishing and the threat of the Kindle comes from an opinion piece in the New York Times this week. Eleanor Randolph writes (emphasis mine), There are darker questions ...

Tagged: death of the publishing industry, e-books, ebooks, kindle, opinion, publishing industry, technophobia