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Originally Posted by Alan Kaufman
Does it strike anyone here as strange that the two authors, Alan Kaufman and Sherman Alexie, who stand up to oppose the hi-tech cestruction of books are each the sons of genocided people?
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JK Rowling is also anti-ebook. So are Ray Bradbury and Audrey Niffenegger, and all three of those have been discussed here.
Sherman Alexie gets special attention for expressing a desire to be physically violent to ebook readers. And you get special attention because you're continuing to converse with us, and some of us like conversation, even when the target obviously isn't listening. Otherwise, both would be ignored in a couple of days.
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Perhaps we intuit something that you don't, about how trashing of sacred cultural artifacts such as the book
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Sacred in whose culture? Sherman Alexie's ancestors had no thick tomes of paper wisdom to hand to their descendants. Your comments show idolotry of the medium, not respect for the message.
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the fact remains: hi-tech is destroying books and book culture. The book world is in collapse.
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You are, once again, conflating the publishing industry with book culture. Books are doing fine; they're moving to another medium--one with less censorship, less costs, and more accessibility.