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Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Ebooks Bring About Changes

Ebooks Are Changing the Way We Read, and the Way Novelists Write

Paul Mason | August 10, 2015


...But what is the ebook doing to the way we read? And how, in turn, are the changes in the way millions of us read going to affect the way novelists write? This is not just a question for academics; you only have to look at people on a beach this summer to see how influential fiction remains, and how, if its narratives were to change radically, our self-conception might also change.

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<more at http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/10/ebooks-are-changing-the-way-we-read-and-the-way-novelists-write; related links: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122026529 (How E-Books Will Change Reading And Writing. December 30, 2009) and http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123980920727621353 (How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write; Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone. April 20, 2009)>

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