Roundup

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1. Lannie Brockstein says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 9:19 am

   It seems to me that every ‘book fair’ would do very well to become known as ‘literature fairs’, because the book medium is to no longer have a monopoly on literature the same way that the oil companies are no longer to have a monopoly on cars. Literature in computer file format is becoming very popular and accepted by society. Cellphone format. Text messaging format. CD format. Video format. These new formats should be embraced.

   The music industry, is called the ‘music industry’; it is not called the ‘cassette tape industry’, or
   the ‘CD industry’. The literature industry should not be called the book industry. Independent bookstores should not consider themselves as bookstores anymore; they should consider themselves as literature stores.

   Doing so does not mean the end of ‘the book’. ‘Record stores’ have begun to sell LP’s again, because the publishers of music have begun publishing albums in LP format again. There is a place in society for every good format, whether that be for music, or for literature.

   Bookninja?

   Literatureninja!

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