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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.”"
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It might be we are missing Alexie's point. I was on Amazon yesterday researching a topic and was dismayed at the number of useful titles that were available only for the Kindle--there was no pBook version either, just the Kindle. I checked several other eBook sellers and none of them had those titles. If the Kindle ends up suppressing publication, either through it's proprietary DRM or through Amazon's reach--their clout with publishers--then I think I might agree that Alexie has a good point. After all, his audience was "independent booksellers."
Not how I would have expressed it myself although it did get someone's attention.