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When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.
As we head at a fast clip into an unimaginable future, we need to keep a clear vision and a firm grip on what had meaning in the past. The desire to shape and share our stories is embedded in our DNA.
Not to be outdone by Barnes & Noble, Amazon is set to release "Kindle for PC." The new program will let anyone with a Windows-based computer buy, do...
Books need to come out faster and in all forms -- audio, digital, and enhanced, which means skillfully embedding audio and visuals to enrich, not interrupt, the reading experience.
If you read the N.Y.Times in its coverage of the disruption of the Kindle, you might think that publishers are losing a fortune from the sudden rise in Kindle sales. Actually, the opposite is true.
Suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.
We have grown distant from our words. Our books are not physical objects, but rather bits and bytes on a screen. Reading aloud makes words tangible and gives them a presence.
Old technologies may be no better than new ones, but it's worth taking a moment every now and then to make sure we still know how to sit still and take in the life going on around us...
If our attention spans are really getting shorter, why are novels so much easier to sell? And if people really want longer works, how do we explain the explosion of shorter and shorter fiction?
The first pages I stuffed into my tooth were from Crime and Punishment, and once they had reached a soggy end, I rammed in The Idiot. But Dostoevsky failed to dull the pain.
I read like a madwoman. I would get drowsy, and on those long reading afternoons when the Kindle slipped from my hand, it fell silently on the pillow and I slept.
While we've witnessed the digital tsunami plowing under the music industry and news business -- and lapping at the shores of TV, movies and radio -- books, until recently, have been largely sheltered.
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The cost of an e-book has become such a point of contention because it makes distinct something we haven't had to distinguish until now: the price of content, independent from its medium.
By marketing the Kindle to me -- i.e. 'adults' who already read regularly -- publishing is merely doubling down on the biggest problem facing the industry: not enough people read books.
The books of the 21st century will no longer be sold by an agent to a publishing house who tries to sell them to bookstores. The most successful books of the future will look more like a U2 concert.
The loss of intellectual curiosity, and the death of reading, among our kids is a serious crisis as our children gravitate away from the written word and toward the visual image.
Amazon screwed up last month when it sold Kindle users an unlicensed version of a book. The online behemoth then compounded its goof.
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