by Daney

Okay, I’ll admit it–my last post was sort of a scam. I started talking about the publishing market, then sent you to a column about different kinds of learning.

This one http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/07/buckle-up.html really is about the market for books. It’s comforting (sorta) and is written by someone I respect. Honest.

by Daney

Who among the participants in this blog is not involved in some level in the ebooks vs. pbooks debate? Given the title of the blog, why would we be here if we didn’t care about books?

So do we just stand by while traditional publishers go under? Is there anything we can do?

To my surprise I find that I don’t have a knee-jerk aversion to ebooks and I know that some of you have Kindles, iPads and other devices. In my heavy travel days I expect that I would have, too. Yet I’m still passionate about reading “real” books.

Where do you come out? As usual, David Brooks has an unusual perspective http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/opinion/09brooks.html?th&emc=th.