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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Do e-books really threaten the future of printed ones?
In the digital age, the printed book is all but extinct, right? Wrong! Avid readers tell us why `real' books are still giving their e-book counterparts such stiff competition
In 1930, American avant-garde writer Bob Brown predicted that the printed book was bound for obsolescence. In his book The Readies, he says the time has come “to rid the reader of the cumbersome book“. He envisions a “machine that will allow us to keep up with the vast volume of print available today and be optically pleasing, “and hence inspired the e-reader. Unfortunately for Brown, 2015 has only just begun and some have already started to call time on the e-book.
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