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6charlong · 04-06-2011, 07:29 PM

I don't understand J.K. Rowling's position about publishing in eBook form.

Obviously a book in hardback binding is a real book since they've been around for centuries although in Jane Austen's time people bought books as sewn pages and then took them to a favorite book binder to have them hand bound in leather to match the rest of the library.

In the US publishers started mass binding the sewn pages with cheap cloth or even cardboard covers: these were criticized as not being 'real' books at the time.

Then some publishers started printing books without even that, with just colorful paper covers, but these were just 'trashy' detective stories and such, not real books at all.

Then in the 1950s some publishers started printing classics with paperback style bindings, it shocked everyone and launched a debate over whether they were real books or just throwaway trash like the rest of the paperbacks.

Now books are being published in digital form to be read on book readers. I wonder what it is that these other presentations have that is lacking on my Kindle. It has a leather cover like the first books and Jane Austen reads the same on my Kindle as she has for the past two Centuries on all the other presentations.

I've given my granddaughter a Kindle because she loves reading and I wanted her to begin to build a library of her own, and because she's a child of the 21st Century and this is what books will be in her lifetime. I refuse to go to the Darknet even for a favored book because of what it teaches her.

I love J.K. Rowling's work. I've tried but I can't understand this.

04-06-2011, 07:29 PM	#69
6charlong friendly lurker Posts: 896 Karma: 2436026 Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: US Device: Kindle, nook, Apple and Kobo	I don't understand J.K. Rowling's position about publishing in eBook form. Obviously a book in hardback binding is a real book since they've been around for centuries although in Jane Austen's time people bought books as sewn pages and then took them to a favorite book binder to have them hand bound in leather to match the rest of the library. In the US publishers started mass binding the sewn pages with cheap cloth or even cardboard covers: these were criticized as not being 'real' books at the time. Then some publishers started printing books without even that, with just colorful paper covers, but these were just 'trashy' detective stories and such, not real books at all. Then in the 1950s some publishers started printing classics with paperback style bindings, it shocked everyone and launched a debate over whether they were real books or just throwaway trash like the rest of the paperbacks. Now books are being published in digital form to be read on book readers. I wonder what it is that these other presentations have that is lacking on my Kindle. It has a leather cover like the first books and Jane Austen reads the same on my Kindle as she has for the past two Centuries on all the other presentations. I've given my granddaughter a Kindle because she loves reading and I wanted her to begin to build a library of her own, and because she's a child of the 21st Century and this is what books will be in her lifetime. I refuse to go to the Darknet even for a favored book because of what it teaches her. I love J.K. Rowling's work. I've tried but I can't understand this.