Farrar, Straus and Giroux: Franzen on ebooks and the future of reading

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“The Great Gatsby was last updated in 1924. You don’t need it to be refreshed, do you?

“Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I do. When I read a book, I’m handling a specific object in a specific time and place. The fact that when I take the book off the shelf it…

 Exactly how I feel. Won’t do the eBooks

  1. Date Posted Icon 30th January 2012
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    Because, you know, I needed one more reason to dislike Franzen, fucking wanker that he is. Franzen seems to feel that...
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    also you are not a “literature-crazed” person if you think enabling people to move language around is somehow a bad...
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    Conversations like this sort of kill me, because everyone wants to act like digital publishing is the end of ink and...
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    feel. Won’t do
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    I’m currently trying to go paperless for grad school (no more printing out articles etcetc) and this was something i...
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    We all just need to give up on fighting ebooks. Yes they look nice and smell nice. Yes there are current...