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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
That's not how I read it. It seems to me to be a defense of paper books as some kind of mystical, ensouled entities. In effect, he accuses anyone who likes ebooks of zombifying these mystic entities by transmogrifying them into soulless ebooks, where they tragically reside in a sort of digital purgatory, corrupting the souls of all who read them. Exactly how the Nazis come in, I'm not sure, but he seems to equate ebook publishers with the death camp guards. Or something.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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It really is a slap in the face of his father that he is equating a simple technological advance, that makes content more easily available to many people, to the horror that the Nazis inflicted on the Jews. Nazis didn't burn the books because they were beautiful, they wanted to ban the content. Just the opposite of what is happening now. Additionally, I am sure in a few years ebooks will be aesthetically just as pleasing as high quality pbooks are now. The author's father will turn over in his grave reading his son's article.
The whole idea seems so crazy that I can only think:
a.)He is a troll who made this whole thing up to have a good laugh. That would be the utmost in bad taste, though.
b.)This is part of a last-ditch desperate efforts by some publishers to save their old business model.