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December 13, 2005
books online
Did anyone else see that Harper Collins has turned over much of their work to be published online? It's this big issue between them and google, and apparently now instead of google retreiving the articles, Harper COllins will be publishing it online through themselves. I guess I didn't really understand what the big deal was or why it was such an issue. But it did make me think back to a long time ago when I was reading a science fiction book and I found an article that said that one day all books would be on little computers that we would read instead of the actual book. I remember this feeling of huge disappointment, because one of my favorite things about a book is the way it smells when you open it. Years later, as I find myself reading online, I find I still have a little of that disappointment. I miss the smell of a good book and the creases in the pages. I hope all publishers don't eventually publish their work online. If books become obsolete.... I give up writing.
Posted by Christine Dance at December 13, 2005 2:21 AM
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