Comments on: Psst! A laptop lurks inside this U.K. student’s ‘book’ http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/21/psst-a-laptop-lurks-inside-this-uk-students-book/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:52:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/21/psst-a-laptop-lurks-inside-this-uk-students-book/#comment-771384 Rob Preece Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:02:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/04/21/psst-a-laptop-lurks-inside-this-uk-students-book/#comment-771384 I hope eBook readers will continue to proudly read straight from the eBook device rather than attempt to disguise it. As far as literary fiction coming last, maybe. I think literary fiction authors got the idea of using computers to write last as well. Doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. And when I read about people who "just like to read paper," I actually hear "just afraid to try something new." Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com I hope eBook readers will continue to proudly read straight from the eBook device rather than attempt to disguise it.

As far as literary fiction coming last, maybe. I think literary fiction authors got the idea of using computers to write last as well. Doesn’t mean it isn’t going to happen. And when I read about people who “just like to read paper,” I actually hear “just afraid to try something new.”

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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