To Publish Without Perishing (Clay Shirky guestblog post)
Clay Shirky, guest blogging on Boing Boing does a nice job of delineating the differences between "Readers" and "book Lovers".
From Aldus Manutius until recently, book lovers have been the most passionate readers. Now they are mostly just the oldest readers. Thanks to digital data, there is a fateful choice to be made between serving lovers of the text and lovers of the page; I think even Manutius would have sided with the readers over the collectors. I hope today's publishers do as well.
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