In a recent post on the Huffington Post blog, Alice Carey bemoans the loss of bookstores and celebrates the opening of a new bookstore in Brooklyn. Along the way, though, she belittles owners of e-readers, asserting “I doubt the owner of the Kindle will really read any of these books…. Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Pew report: Young adults remain bound to libraries, printed books”. (Deseret News) Furthermore, “95%… Read more »
Copyright Kara Pekar 2012. All Rights Reserved. This past week I read a matched pair of essays on e-readers vs. print books, from opposing points of view. The first, by Katy Guest (The Independent) is decidedly anti-e-reader, pro-print. The second is a satirical response by Nate Hoffelder (The Digital Reader… Read more »
