Links: Making Books
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I can't help thinking that as this year gasps its way to its merciful end, something terribly sad is happening, that a vague, general shift in the cultural landscape will alter how or what we read in some still indefinable way; that a quirky, creaky, financially insupportable business that in spite of itself produces that most desirable and perfect of objects — the book — is perishing, and that we are yet to fully feel the loss.
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If its any consolation, this is a pretty permanent outlook for the book industry. It’s like its part of book people’s DNA. When I worked in a book store in the mid 90s, all you would read in Publishers Weekly etc was how the book industry is in a constant state of near death. Sales seem to go down every year, yet it always hangs on. Will electronic books be the salvation? Or the final nail in the coffin?
A contrary view is that we’re living in a Golden Age for some genres… http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/25/CMSBT6SE8.DTL