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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
First, tying old paper ways to modern e-ways is only a short term proposition until the ebook is popularized, we're in an education phase. But as soon as the ebook is fairly well known, that phase would be 'passé' and leave the logo to be redone. There goes the endurablility again.
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I'm not so sure of that. The book is still iconic, and will probably remain so for a long, long time. Fictionwise, and many writing-related companies, use a quill pen as part of their logo. The quill pen not only represents a writing instrument, but is further overloaded with a sense of
artistic writing, like poetry or fiction.
The meaning of a lot of icons survive well beyond the usefulness of their physical representation. How many e-mail programs and operating systems use envelope icons? It conveys the meaning of "mail" without the viewer having to decode it.