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Outstanding.
Yeah, no kidding, it was excellent - and passionate.
In my completely unbiased opinion (heh), that was excellent!
Ain't love grand.
Excellent piece, rr.
in his Understanding Media, well worth a re-read, Marshall McLuhan noted that new media are ALWAYS suspected of killing the old media -- movies would kill theatre, TV would kill radio, video would kill cinemas, etc etc.;
in fact, they each find their niche, eventually ....
I prefer paper for many things: it has qualities of touch and permanence that beat screens, and I do not trust many valuable things -- tickets, personal memos, money things -- to electronic media alone.
I also prefer reading on paper, esp. after daytime hours, less need for eye focus.
Paper will find its niche: as the Cdn Pulp and Paper Association notes, demand for paper has risen steadily alongside the PC-printer combo in recent decades. people want to hold what they print, and read that repeatedly, anywhere..
Sigil is free as in freedom ebook creation software licensed under the GNU GPL. It runs on Windows, MacOSX and GNU/Linux.
Booktype looks interesting, but you need to be a somewhat experienced GNU/Linux user to get it up and running. It looks like it might be fairly new and thus the somewhat geeky installation process.
Glad to see people paying attention to the DRM/copyright issues in this debate. The already mentioned Cory Doctorow has some interesting insights into why amazon does DRM-free music.
Opinions on the death of books seem to have changed a fair bit since my ghostbuster post way back.
kindle'd and nookd -- amazing story. Thanks for posting that link, I would never have seen it (didn't know the blog).
BTW Catchfire, I'm reading Tony Judt with great appreciation -- will post suitable comments on that thread.