Rather than set the world on fire with radical contigency, I expect that ebooks will follow much the same trajectory as paperbacks. They will start out being frowned upon as shabby, and then they will deliver literature conveniently to millions of people who might not otherwise have read it.
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Carl Zimmer responds to Jonathan Franzen’s rant against ebooks. (via freepressbooks)
Yes. Can we talk about the actual content of books again now?
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