Books are the last bastion of the old business
model—thhe only major medium that still hasn't
embraced the digital age. Publishers and author
advocates have generally refused to put books
online for fear the content will be Napsterized.
And you can understand their terror, because the
publishing industry is in big financial trouble,
rife with layoffs and restructurings. Literary
pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this
Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe?
To which I reply: Sure they can. But only if
publishers adopt Wark's perspective and provide
new ways for people to encounter the written
word. We need to stop thinking about the future
of publishing and think instead about the future of reading.
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