Tuesday writing conversation: Are Books Dead?
This question about the future of reading arises now because of an essay by Scottish fiction writer Ewan Morrison enitlted “Are books dead and can authors survive?”
Morrison goes on to explain: “”E-books and e-publishing will mean the end of the ‘writer’ as a profession. He argues that every information stream that has become digitalized has inexorably slid toward free no-charge access. We’ve seen it happen with music, we’ve seen it happen with movies, and even with long-distance telephone calls.
In other words, the public now demands its media to be free.
I must admit in my own case, I read fewer and fewer books. Instead I read upwards of half a dozen newspapers a day including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Globe and Mail and the Irish Times. I read the last to keep abreast of the dreadful Catholic sex abuse crisis in…
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