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Originally Posted by krisk
I can't imagine what would be the impetus for an author to decline e-publication. I know JK has said she is adamantly against it, but cannot understand why.
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JK may just fear piracy. (We will, perhaps, not look at the logic of that one too closely.)
In Fadiman's case, the book is about her love of books--collecting, displaying, sorting, sharing--and she wants her work to promote that kind of love of books. And it loses something if converted to ebook--the person reading doesn't have paper pages to turn while reading, and has lost one of the ways to connect with the author's message. The medium "paper book" is part of what she's presenting. (At least, that's what I gather. YMMV.)