Re: "The Elusive E-book"

From: "Bill Janssen"
............. truly new voices with new stories and new
> worlds will be writing.  But maybe it's not that bad; after 
> all, most
> of the old stories and some of the new ones started in a 
> different
> medium anyway.
>
...........
.  Writing, and reading, are booming; it's just not
> what we used to think of as books, back in the last century. 
> And
> maybe that's OK.
>
> Bill
>

Anybody could sit and listen to a wandering minstrel, but he 
still had to be fed and clothed.

And he was a 'non-specialist' being newspaper, storyteller and 
Wikipedia all rolled into one - maybe even a letter writing clerk 
and postman!

Bill, wriggle as you might ;-), if you want quality you have to 
pay for it.   Wikipedia is not free at all, it is simply that 
those designing, hosting, editing and contributing bear the 
costs.   The 'free' newspapers o nthe net are not free at all, 
but are used as a sales medium for either hardprint, or for other 
services, or for other advertising.   When the returns go bad 
whither the online newspaper?   [and my answer to whither is 
'wither' ;-)]

And it is actually worrying that so many need the net to contact 
and communicate because we are losing - have largely lost - our 
communal structures and the host of relationships that go with 
them.

Education was made free to children over one hundred years ago in 
most western states precisely to ensure the spread of knowledge 
was wide, and because the new industrial society needed educated 
people.   The latter was the stronger reason and the 'contract' 
was that these people would do the jobs of 'progress'.   Was it 
'free'?

'It all depends what you mean by...'

;-)   Joseph



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