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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Just started reading Patricia's upload of Hugo's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' (many thanks Patricia  ), and thought this snippet was kind of interesting; Hugo is describing a scene from the 15th century:
"I tell you, sir, that the end of the world has come. .... It is the accursed inventions of this century that are ruining everything, artilleries, bombards, and, above all, printing, that other German pest. No more manuscripts, no more books! printing will kill bookselling. It is the end of the world that is drawing nigh."
The more things change .... |
Unfortunately, ebooks
do affect booksellers. I've been watching the slow demise of the independent bookstore, because they can't match the pricing of the big chains. The ones I know that are surviving are in specialist markets like travel or children's books, where their appeal is that if it's in print, they probably
have a title in that line, with no need to hunt around or special order.
If the title is available as an ebook, I won't buy from them...
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Dennis