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Originally Posted by HansTWN
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.
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Good comments, sir. No, Kaufman is not a troll, he wrote that essay for the Evergreen Review website and he meant every word of it. And yes, it was in poor taste, and prob his dad is quite sad in Heaven to see what his son wrote. It was really a tasteless piece of crapola.