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Originally Posted by weatherman
From an article in the NY Times today;
"At a panel of authors speaking mainly to independent booksellers, Sherman Alexie, the National Book Award-winning author of “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” said he refused to allow his novels to be made available in digital form. He called the expensive reading devices “elitist” and declared that when he saw a woman sitting on the plane with a Kindle on his flight to New York, “I wanted to hit her.”"
I couldn't believe this when I read it. I was offended on several different levels, but most of all I was just really aghast at the level of ignorance and stupidity on the part of this author, especially as an author of young adult fiction. Worse yet, when given a chance to correct himself on his own blog, the only thing he apologizes for is the idea of hitting a woman;
"I should have edited myself. I should have said, "I saw a man on the airplane reading a Kindle and I wanted to hit him." In this way, my joke becomes about my true object of fear, distrust, and anger---the Kindle---and not about the gender of the person reading the Kindle."
I personally will be dropping a line to his current publisher, and I hope other Kindlers and those who read books on other electronic devices will too;
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Huh .... well, never heard of him, don't care about him, am still going to pull out my Kindle on flights from Austin to San Diego (since it's a 3 hour flight and a 21 hour drive, and the cost of gas really outweighs the cost of the flight), and whenever I have a few minutes to read. As mentioned, there are so many people who want to punch me in the face, for reasons that have nothing to do with reading on a Kindle, someone just might want to let him know that if he does decide to punch me in the face, I will kick his balls in until they stick out the other side of his back.
