Bob W wrote:
the text is obviously the most important aspect of reading,
but every writer
I've ever met has also been a reader and has been in love
with books. Most
of the great novelists have at some time in their career
written about the
joys of books in much the same terms that Marnie and I have
been using.
Yes, but it's entirely separate from, and secondary to, the *writing*.
Sure, but ebooks are about reading and readers, not about writing, so I
don't get your point.
Well, without people doing the reading there's no point in anyone doing
the writing: Reading and writing are intimately connected.
Neither you nor George Orwell would buy Danielle Steele
novels no matter
how magnificent the paper, printing and binding.
You may have stumbled up on my guilty secret!
And you would still love George Orwell's writing if it were only
available in cheap paperback form.
That's how I first read it. But even cheap paperbacks are part of the ritual
of browsing, choosing and reading, and it's this ritual associated with
being a reader that the Kindles (and you, as far as I can tell) don't seem
to understand.
Ironically, it's the cheap paperbacks that will be the major casualty of
the coming e-book revolution. The high quality printed books that you
and I love *won't* be. (Though they'll get more expensive.)
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