Are books dead, and can authors survive?

[Humberto Torofuerte]

More sand and water resistant than a Kindle?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> in July, adult hardcovers staged a rebound, with sales rising 33.9%. (Vacation readers prefer either hardcovers or e-books?)
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> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:33 AM
> Subject: Are books dead, and can authors survive?
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/22/are-books-dead-ewan-morrison
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> Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html
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