http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/08/is-the-printed-book-dead/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/08/is-the-printed-book-dead/#comment-2206 admin Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:17:38 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=2431#comment-2206 Even when I worked in a bookstore years ago (I LOVE books, btw), I eagerly anticipated the "eBook", even though it was only a dream at the time. Mostly for environmental reasons. But I have to say that I would be quite happy if 90% of the books in print WEREN'T in print. I've always joked that the proliferation of literacy and publishing tools has done more to damage the quality of the printed word than poverty ever could. I think it would be FANTASTIC if there were still print books, but if they were expensive enough to create that only "worthy" material would be printed in quality form. Sounds elitist, but I think the world would survive without hardcover editions of Dan Brown novels ;) Even when I worked in a bookstore years ago (I LOVE books, btw), I eagerly anticipated the “eBook”, even though it was only a dream at the time. Mostly for environmental reasons. But I have to say that I would be quite happy if 90% of the books in print WEREN’T in print. I’ve always joked that the proliferation of literacy and publishing tools has done more to damage the quality of the printed word than poverty ever could. I think it would be FANTASTIC if there were still print books, but if they were expensive enough to create that only “worthy” material would be printed in quality form. Sounds elitist, but I think the world would survive without hardcover editions of Dan Brown novels

]]> http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/08/is-the-printed-book-dead/#comment-2205 jeanne Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:20:05 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=2431#comment-2205 I hear you Ian. and. I'm sad that books and bookstores are heading for demise. It is one of the pleasures of life to amble through a bookstore and smell and feel books. I'm simply in the Boo Hoo about it all. I hear you Ian. and. I’m sad that books and bookstores are heading for demise. It is one of the pleasures of life to amble through a bookstore and smell and feel books.
I’m simply in the Boo Hoo about it all.

]]> http://dissociatedpress.com/2010/08/is-the-printed-book-dead/#comment-2204 Stella Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:08:04 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=2431#comment-2204 Why must everything I love die? Why must everything I love die?

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