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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I don't say any of this lightly. I love fiction, I love writing and the way words fit together, but I'm a member of one of the last generations to enjoy such a pastime. Our readers now are a stepping stone to something far more powerful and interactive. An infant technology that will mature over the next few years until it reaches critical mass. But it will be the few, not the many who read works of fiction on their 'readers'.
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I humbly disagree. Books (printing) have been around a long time through many "technological" changes and we're still reading fiction.
And I think great novel can be and are still being written. Orwell's 1984, David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (yes, I think it's a great novel).
Not that I *don't* think that ebooks are going to bring about changes that the publishing industry is not going to like.