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Is this guy paid per Godwin or something as his analogy is getting more and more tired each time he trots it out somewhere else, it also seems like if he actually stopped to think about it for a second then his opinion of ebooks should be reversed since making books in digital form in addition to their paper versions increases the chance that they will be read and enjoyed by more people and beyond the copyright issues even this effort by google also has the potential to give less known works a wider audience.
I am sure that some of these idiots complaining about ebooks are convinced that you have to pulp a paper copy of a book for every digital copy as its the only explanation that could cover their campaign to reduce the potential audience for books.
Actually, he does claim that people who prefer ebooks all want to label paper books as inferior tree-killing versions and if that was the general view then he might have some reason to complain, albeit less than those he labels nazis and fascists, but the truth is that if anyone considers environmental benefits of ebooks it is a personal benefit to them rather than some point in a campaign against paper books.
At the end of the day, the best thing for books is to be read by people and it shouldn't matter if its in digital form, paperback, hardback or carved on stone tablets, giving people more chances to read a book should be seen as a good thing.
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