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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I don't have a problem answering this. I just ask myself (and anyone in earshot) what you get when you take the ink out of a book. Then I ask again what's more important, the book or the content?
The content is more important than the book, just as it's more important than the e-book reader, the TV screen, or the actor's voice... without content, all of them are empty. But without one or all of them, the content can be expressed somewhere else, even if it's just written in the sand at low tide.
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Yet, Marshall McLuhan said "the medium is the message". Not that I think he was totally right, but I do think he had a point. Some content is meaningful only when it's presented in the right way. That content (which I could give examples of, but not fully define-for me it includes plays & poetry, which leave me cold when I read them) requires the proper medium so, for that, the 'book' is more important. (OK, in the examples I can think of the proper medium isn't a book, and I might agree with you if we restrict ourselves to content which is meaningful when presented in a book, whether it be a treeBook or an eReader. Or I might not-I do better with examples so it would probably depend on what was chosen as an example.)