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Unbelievable.
Kaufman's accusations that Net and electronic readers are killing "the book" are ludicrous. In essence, he has written an emotional piece in defence of the literature. The fact that he has falsely identified who the enemy is wanes in comparison to the fact that majority of MR users share concern for the future of that same literature, share the fear that it is dying art.
So now we have a modern Don Quijote with his nothing short of comical crusade against ebooks and electronic readers. Electronic readers and conversion to digital formats is inevitable not because they have anything to do with the fate of the literature, but for their convenience. There is nothing mystical about ebooks, over and over again it is stated that it is the same thing as a pbook.
Why is then, that I am the rare person who finds this heated defence of ebooks as comical as the Kaufman's attack? The only exception is mr. Jordan, he is wordsmith himself, I can understand that he finds the notion offensive and accusation worthy of refute.
But the rest of the contributors to this topic... Are you guys really ready to enter the "war between pbooks and ebooks", to indirectly prove Kaufman statement that such a war and conflict does exist?
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