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While mobile phones are good for quick access to reading material, their backlighted screens are “terrible for long-form reading,” said Evan Schnittman, vice president for global business development at Oxford University Press. “It hurts the eyes. The pages of a book are the size they are because of hundreds of years of experience of what works best.”
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These statements are getting to be embarrassing. Books are sized the way they are because of years of experience in what sells best and makes the largest profit. Implying anything else is disingenuous of any publisher.
And making assumptions about what is easy and hard to read on, when you consider the fact that there are almost 7 billion people on this planet, none of whom came out of a cookie-cutter, is just sad. Even at Oxford, some people still just don't get it.