Thursday, January 06, 2011

Daily Kos: Readers & Book Lovers: Should Books Die a Natural Death?

Daily Kos: Readers & Book Lovers: Should Books Die a Natural Death?:

"The question is the title of a famous BBC radio debate between Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1927, in which Leonard argued that books ought to be handmade. He criticized England’s reading public as having no appetite for good literature, only pop fiction, and said that quality had been abandoned for quantity. Virginia had quite another view, one that could be deemed prophetic from today’s perspective.

She countered with points that could be taken as an argument for e-books."

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