Where do they keep digging up these clowns? That was one of the funnier things I've read lately, but not funny like Hal Spacejock. I have a few quotes that I would like to respond to:
“It’s really expensive,” she said of the Kindle 2, which Amazon sells for $359. “If you’re going to pay that, you’re giving a statement to the world that you like to read — and you’re probably not using it to read a mass market paperback.”
Really? Because I recently chucked a whole bookshelf of classics, you know, the books I studied for my degree in literature, and you know, I'll download them if I ever care to read them again.
"The publishing world is all caught up in weighty questions about the Kindle and other such devices: Will they help or hurt book sales and authors’ advances? Cannibalize the industry? Galvanize it? "
Need I say anything? And this came out yesterday - FRIDAY!
"Michael Silverblatt, host of the weekly public radi
o show “Bookworm,” uses the term “literary desire” to describe the attraction that comes with seeing a stranger reading your favorite book or author. “When I was a teenager waiting in line for a film showing at the Museum of Modern Art and someone was carrying a book I loved, I would start to have fantasies about being best friends or lovers with that person,” he said."
Aw, Mikey, I'm embarrassed for you. Didja ever touch a real girl after all?