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Archive for November, 2009
The End of Books?
Nov 10th
Ever think about how the time people spend online is time spent reading, but not reading books? Ever ponder the dwindling profits of book publishers? The general diminishing of the american attention span – tuned now for status updates but not novels. I’ve always been a book lover, but I’m also prepared to see human beings tell stories and information through other means that eventually leave books behind. Is there not a scenario in which the purpose of books would be entirely encompassed by some other format(s)? 2 or 3 generations down the road, do you think there will still be a lot of “book lovers”? Big change is nothing to lament, just another opportunity to kill it and move ahead!
