Comments on: ‘The sound and the fury of e-book naysayers’ http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/04/the-sound-and-the-fury-of-e-book-naysayers/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 17 May 2008 01:10:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Todd Jonz http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/04/the-sound-and-the-fury-of-e-book-naysayers/#comment-784749 Todd Jonz Sun, 04 May 2008 12:25:48 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/04/the-sound-and-the-fury-of-e-book-naysayers/#comment-784749 These new-fangled motorcars are noisy, dirty, and foul-smelling contraptions, not to mention that they frighten the livestock. It certainly goes without saying that people will never take to them as a viable alternative to the time-tested horse and buggy. These new-fangled motorcars are noisy, dirty, and foul-smelling contraptions, not to mention that they frighten the livestock. It certainly goes without saying that people will never take to them as a viable alternative to the time-tested horse and buggy.

]]> By: Brian Darvell http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/04/the-sound-and-the-fury-of-e-book-naysayers/#comment-784575 Brian Darvell Sun, 04 May 2008 09:33:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/05/04/the-sound-and-the-fury-of-e-book-naysayers/#comment-784575 The first thing which comes to mind on this sort of thing is that the author is perhaps completely ignorant of the real online push for ebooks. He hasn't really done his research and noticed that many of the 'younger' generation are so well adapted to digital technology that the possibilities held in eink and ebooks is terrific. It seems to me just another example of the older generation having difficulty trying to keep up in the digital age - something which ebooks has really been hurt by in my mind. The first thing which comes to mind on this sort of thing is that the author is perhaps completely ignorant of the real online push for ebooks. He hasn’t really done his research and noticed that many of the ‘younger’ generation are so well adapted to digital technology that the possibilities held in eink and ebooks is terrific.

It seems to me just another example of the older generation having difficulty trying to keep up in the digital age - something which ebooks has really been hurt by in my mind.

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