Alan Kauffman Burns the Ebook

In an essay in the Evergreen Review, Kaufman identifies the marketing of the ebook as part of a larger development, one that “indicates not only a rapid demise of the book as a cultural artifact and marketplace commodity but a concerted effort to promote its devaluation, even degradation, even by the chieftains of book publishing.” Wondering why one,  “cannot simply advise E- Book to go fuck itself and produce high-quality reasonably priced books, even if in smaller numbers.”

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