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- Will this year’s supposed take-off of the e-reader kill good lit and fat books? Ooh! Ooh! Pooh! Do you think it’s a… a…a Woozle? Whatever shall we do?!?
- If big books by intellectual lights such as (in descending order of intelligence) Roth, Palin, and Dan Brown aren’t available for the Kindle, one wouldn’t be out of line wondering: what the fuck are people reading on the damn thing? Midlist titles? Come on? We didn’t build this thing to expand our minds… we built it to contract them and stack them in neat, conformed rows on a mental shelf
- The Atlantic will be selling short stories via Kindle
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December 7th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
What a fucking disgraceful article that Guardian piece is — poorly researched, misleading.
Fer fuck’s sake: the 100,00 kindles per week figure is an AMERICAN figure – no UK figure is presented. Why, then, the hand-wringing over the lack of Brown/Palin/Roth on Kindle when they ARE available in the market from which the hardware sales figures are taken? Christ, the article citing the sales even CITES the Sarah Palin, ffs!
Sloppy, shitty journalism.
December 7th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Re the first item – one of the main reasons I’d consider an e-reader is that it would make it much easier to read big, thick tomes because I won’t have to schlep them around with me. And I hardly only choose something “literary” in the bookstore because I want people to see me reading that sort of book – it’s not like I’d read only trashy romance novels without the corrective of What Others Will Think.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
Isn’t all new electronic technology driven by porn? Or, I guess with e-readers we call it “erotica,” don’t we?
December 7th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Charles Dickens is much easier on an ereader…not too heavy to hold!
December 8th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Dude, no way is Sarah Palin smarter than Dan Brown.
December 8th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
“…the fact that Don DeLillo, the pre-eminent American novelist of the present moment…”
Huh? Says who?
December 8th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Good God, thank you, Tolmsted! I was thinking the same thing. I know people respect the writing of DeLillo, but doesn anyone actually like it?
December 11th, 2009 at 10:30 am
To the DeLillo naysayers: please read White Noise asap. Shit, DeLillo can write. Every sentence is crack.
December 11th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I agree.