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Originally Posted by lisreed
This is currently on his blog. While I think what he said was wrong , what he is saying now I think is good and showing he is willing to check it out. I think overall he is another person who feels threatened by ebooks. I can understand that. Half my reading is regular paperbooks and always will be. I do not have the disposable income to begin with to buy all my books I read and I love swapping books online and with friends.
Anyway this is currently on his blog:
Sherman's message in response to a New York Times article that is, in part, about his participation on a panel at BookExpo America in New York last Thursday and his joke about Kindle: In the aftermath of my recent public comments about my fear and loathing of Kindle and its kind, I have received a few dozen amazing, passionate, and compelling emails about the power and beauty of electronic books (and many more hilarious ones questioning my sanity, my morality, my anger management ability, and my writing skills). I have been especially humbled by those Kindle readers who, because of various physical issues, can only read with the machines. While I still have serious qualms about the technology, I have been challenged and emotionally moved enough to take a long-requested meeting with the folks at Amazon and Kindle and listen to their arguments for the machines. I'm on Amazon's list of most-requested authors whose fiction is not available electronically, so now, thanks to the beautiful emails I received, I will do my best to enter the meeting with an open mind. And I definitely promise that I will not beat up anybody at Amazon or Kindle.
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He still sounds like a puffed up idiot to me. He has "qualms" about the technology?? Yeah, I bet a lot of people said that when Gutenberg's press made reading available to the unwashed masses.
He's willing to listen to Amazon's arguments for the machines?? Who the hell gives a rat's patootie WHAT he thinks pro or con regarding ebook readers? Did someone decide he was the end all and be all of reading?
Is he stupid enough to think that as new readers come on the market, the used one's won't be there at a price even the poor can afford? Ummm, that's what sort of happens, you know, that's the only part of the trickle down economy that actually functions. There are certainly a lot of books to be had at much better prices online than in your basic bookstore. Not to mention all the free goodies (oh, of course, I forgot, they give away all of the classic literature for free at most book stores .... riiiiiiight).
Oh my .... why my whole concept of this man has changed!! There you have it ... he's "willing" to consider the ebook reader. Why that makes him positively a saint (and if you can't hear the sarcasm dripping off my fingers, then shame on you).
The man's still a git. Probably the type of person who had "qualms" about indoor toilets whenever those first came out. WHAT?? You mean some people might have the technology to crap indoors??? The very THOUGHT!!!