Comments on: eBooks are bad for authors? https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2011/03/23/ebooks-are-bad-for-authors/ Perspectives Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:56:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: SImon Watkins https://twentythirdfloor.co.za/2011/03/23/ebooks-are-bad-for-authors/comment-page-1/#comment-16482 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:56:06 +0000 http://twentythirdfloor.co.za/?p=1041#comment-16482 They are certainly a threat to their immortality, as files on hard drives and flash, replace row after row of hardcovers, in public and private libraries across the globe.

Our digital mediums have lifetimes measured in years; paper and granite are still the only way we know to reliably store information for centuries…

But it’s about more than just the practical matter of information storage and retrieval; memorials have to be real; you have to be able to see them unaided; touch them.

Didn’t really answer your question, and now I am late for work:(

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