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I am still trying to decide which is funnier: the original article, this entire thread, or someone's comment that "Publishers may know what they're doing". Now, THAT'S funny!
Thanks for the link to the article -- it really is a hoot!
For anyone who actually reads for the words, e-books and e-ink readers, even in today's one dot oh versions, deliver the goods with killer benefits over paper. While "The Big Sleep" can be enjoyed for its atmospheric cover, its attractiveness as a garnish on a coffee table, as a signal at the coffee shop that it's you there for the blind date -- the dialogue is as rich, crafty and just as plain entertaining when consumed off the e-ink instead of the trade paperback you are carrying around that's heavier than the e-reader. Home movies haven't disappeared just because 8mm has; books (in some e-book form or another) will continue to thrive even as paperbacks -- and the entire economic ecosystem that supports them -- wither to niche proportions.
SP
Who no longer has a buggy
But kept the whip
In Toronto
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