adair: stack of books (books)
adair ([personal profile] adair) wrote in [community profile] ebooks 2009-12-03 03:44 pm (UTC)

Kaufman's rant looks like the other rants against changes in the book world. There was something similar, although I don't believe the Nazis were mentioned, over libraries filming old, brittle newspapers as an effort to preserve the content. This person,(I wish I could remember his name, it's well-known in certain circles) wanted libraries to keep the paper newsprint, at great expense, so he could browse through them for research. Now, libraries do understand that paper browsing is different from film browsing, but newsprint ages quickly, breaks when handled, and text would be lost without some form of format change.

I think Kaufman's rant is really against Amazon and the Kindle; a lot of people are worried that Amazon and Google may get too much control over book distribution. But that's a different issue, and Kaufman does not really touch on that.

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