Ohmigod.
How can I possibly respect anyone who says:
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Amazon not only does not see books as a product different from any other — it sees the transformation of books into electronic products, ultimately far from the nature of a book, as a unique opportunity for the advancement of its own reading device, the Kindle.
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It wants to control e-books not least of all because they are not books. Migrating people to this medium means Amazon will own a potentially unlimited new entertainment platform — which, along the way, will have compromised the very form and meaning of a book.
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Children, in new research, gain much less from reading (or, in the new word, accessing) books on a screen than they do reading actual books. Perhaps adults do too.
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And this last gem:
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[...]have to start using the physical book, the true book, to undercut e-books, these unreal books,[...]
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Title says it all, really...
Wolff: Real books can defeat Amazon and e-books