Thread: Kaufman links e-book trend to bookburning, Nazis
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Old 12-01-2009, 09:28 PM   #110
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The ironic thing is that the classics have benefited most of all from the arrival of ebooks. From the start of Project Gutenberg they have been the most widely distributed and are even today among the most downloaded. In addition many have been rescued from obscurity. How many people have read Da Vinci's Notebook in ebook form (on, gasp, the Kindle) that would never have read it due to unavailability in printed form? On the literacy front, ebooks make it easier to learn the language itself, providing access to dictionaries, thesaurii, and grammar guides in one convenient package. Completing the irony is the fact that Harry Potter is not legally available in electronic format. Apparently you and J K Rowling have something in common after all.

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