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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
Wait.
Could we be going about this the wrong way?
Attacking his beliefs will only embed them.
A group of us, with our readers, showing him WHY they are so important.........now thats something else.
Serious conversations and one on one demo's would have to change his mind!
Having him see is isn't "one or the other" that most of us love both our paper books and e-books.....that there is no difference in the reading experience once you get into a great story......thats what could have an effect.
As for the rising illiteracy rate.....its starts at birth, people. You gotta read to your kids every frickin' day. They have to see you with a book, paper or ebook in your face.
oops......off my soapbox now.  |
Depends on how you define "literacy".
But I think the paragraph so often quoted is at the heart of his screed. He doesn't want to have to 'compete' for the readers' attentions. Just such a scenario was put forth by the authors' guild in "Atlas Shrugged". I think what he envisions is a society where it isn't easy to assuage the hunger for more reading material, rather the selection is limited to "great works" and one is only allowed to buy from that group of 'approved' (of course, approval comes from said guilds) works, etc., ad-nauseum. Yep. A very socialist view.
And yes, I notice that he's managed to redefine non-socialist activities (the current marketplace where those who refuse to adapt to their customers' desires fade from the market) as 'socialist'. How modern a technique!
Derek