NYT Opines About Dying Print

Posted by Tom Colvin

June 10, 2008

Reader Michael Downend this morning brought to my attention a sobering opinion piece by the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Paul Krugman entitled “Bits, Bands and Books,” published last Friday.

The Amazon Kindle e-book reader, Krugman declares after playing with one for a couple of months, “is a good enough package that my guess is that digital readers will soon become common, perhaps even the usual way we read books.” His column explores the implications of that.

Readers are chiming into the discussion with Letters To The Editor, three of which were put online today. They worry not only about the future of the book, but also about the future of writers

Provocative stuff…

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