Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

[Mark Kohut]

This irony occurred to me belatedly. Franzen claims our 
"want it now" society makes us want instant ebooks and
his publisher did the best job since all harry potter readers kept
growing and growing at wanting everyone to have his book

ALL AT ONCE.

I think that quantum foam which underlies the universe is made of irony...

AND, I am mad at myself for not seeing this as publicity for his paperback
mostly, that circus monkey.....

Sure as hell bet it ain't selling like planned.........too many hardbacks sold
and too much disappointment amidst no more reasons to believe.............



----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

The F,S & G hype machine of intellectual intimidation is

a good one...........

unfortunately..........

 
----- Original Message -----
From: "kelber at mindspring.com" <kelber at mindspring.com>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Cc: 
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society

Franzen is one of our greatest living novelists (according to the article)?  Yikes!

Laura


-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
>Sent: Jan 30, 2012 11:57 AM
>To: "Erik T. Burns" <eburns at gmail.com>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
>
>It's not so much him being on the lawn....it's the steaming piles he
>leaves behind.
>
>On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Franzzzzen, get off my lawn.
>>
>> an alternative view:
>> http://technologizer.com/2012/01/23/why-history-needs-software-piracy/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Chiang Wang <ooiioocc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>
>
>
>-- 
>Richard Ryan
>New York and the World
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