As usual, human beings, locked in binary oppositions of good/bad, beautiful/ugly, yes/no, are agonising over a world of books/no books. The rip-roaring success of the iPod, and now the i-video, or whatever it is called, where all the music and films you could want no longer need to be objects, just streams of data, has left the publishing world wondering where it fits in. Nobody, not even academics, who are hardier than most, want books in any other form than books. At the same time, we acknowledge that books have become as throwaway as everything else in our culture, so what do we do?# posted by
Gerry Canavan @ 5:53 PM
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