Today I read that an e books manufacturer in the USA has seen purchases rise by 253%! That’s not a straw in the wind, that’s the entire stackyard and the prairies of the mid-West thrown in…..The future purchase of books is going to become more and more digitised. Once newspapers get added, everything will be carried on your super-phone. BUT it will never hold the smell of a book, or the feel of old paper. I wonder if these changes could affect children’s books – not novels, but books for babies, which involve being chewed, scribbled on and taken into the bath? Shurely not possible? And anyway who was it said “Books do furnish a room”?
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