Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Mark Kohut]

I think the mixture of airship-high long view and wrong down-to-earth details is ....laughable, maybe. More to come.
 
But meanwhile, the writer of the article is wrong: Obama did not request an 'advance copy'...
he asked to buy it at a bookstore on his late August vacation, and despite a Time cover and other
publicity swamping the cultural world for over a week, the on-sale date was in September,  so the bookstore owner
gave him an advance copy..................

From: Chiang Wang <ooiioocc at hotmail.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 8:50 AM
Subject: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society


Jonathan Franzen has launched a passionate defence of the printed book, warning that our desire for
the instant gratification of e-books is damaging for society.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/9047981/Jonathan-Franzen-e-books-are-damaging-society.html