The Kindle changed my reading habits, because I now buy books pretty much only when I’m drunk, and late at night.Okay, I’m sure she’s joking, at least in part. But her joke notes how the combination of digital texts and wireless delivery means that shopping for literature has lost almost all its “friction”—the effort of physically going to a store, carrying away the product, and even interacting with sales clerks. The only obstacle to buying books now is money.
Musings about some of my favorite fantasy literature for young readers, comics old and new, the peculiar publishing industry, the future of books, kids today, and the writing process.
04 October 2010
Amazon’s Secret Business Plan
In a Boston Globe interview, memoirist Elif Batuman offered a new picture of book-buying today:
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