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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Just reading this thread; I have the impression that it was the, less than ethical, agent who turned down any ebook publication.
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Here's the context for the Harper Lee May 2006 quote BeccaPrice provided in #9:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/10...oft-pages.html
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. . . in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.
And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.
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The above was written about four months before the Sony Reader was released, but there's no evidence she has changed her mind.
I've said that copyright is too long, but I still support it. If the author wants to make his or her book hard to obtain, or hard to read, I disagree, but would allow it.