Re: The Electrification of Books

If books are like music then the current publishing industry is like the 
Top 40 radio stations of the Seventies which refused to play anything 
that hadn't been released in the last six months. And then Classic FM 
came along and ate their lunch, because with (then) 30 years' worth of 
recorded music to choose from, they could put together a much better 
programme.

Jon.

Mary E. Tyler wrote:
>> Are audio books closer to books than music? My money is on the fact
>> that books are books, whether read or read to you. That's one of the
>> reasons they tell you to read to babies and small children, before
>> they can read to themselves. There may be blurring of the lines, but
>> books are books, in the base sense of how you process the words you
>> see or hear.


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