Thread: Sherman Alexie still hates ebooks
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Old 12-03-2009, 09:57 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
I don't think it's sensitivity so much as incredulity. I mean, are these paper-only authors not using emails, or writing on word processors or checking news online?* Why is it so hard for them to accept non-paper books, yet most of them (and I'm guessing) use the rest of the technology quite happily? Why is the book such a magical object to them? Or are they, like some people I know, more interested in the packaging than the content? Mere collectors of things rather than interested in story or ideas.

*Harlan Ellison excluded.
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