Call me a pessimist, call me Ishmael, but I think that book publishing is about to slide into the sea. We live in a literate time, and our children are writing up a storm, often combining letters and numerals (U R 2 1derful), blogging like crazy, reading for hours off their little screens, surfing around from Henry James to Jesse James to the epistle of James to pajamas to Obama to Alabama to Alanon to non-sequiturs, sequins, penguins, penal institutions, and it’s all free, and you read freely, you’re not committed to anything the way you are when you shell out $30 for a book, you’re like a hummingbird in an endless meadow of flowers.
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Sometimes I think, that and sometimes I don't. It is a scary though to know that old arts are disappearing, books, and still photographs. The smell of new, crisp pages and the joy of holding to a B and W picture. It is scary as it amazing to see the instant pictures on a digital screen, and see books come alive on an ipad. But I believe there is a space in our hearts still for publishing for browsing bookstores and yes spending those 20, or 30 or 60 dollars on abook. At least I do..
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