E-books, small p-booksellers and a â€˜ghostly hamletâ€™

David Rothman writes “I hate binary thinking–“e-books or p-books: it must be one or the other.” And so I was delighted to read that the Net has actually helped small p-booksellers. Separately, via an e-mail list run by Friends of the Library USA, I learned of a “ghostly hamlet of 1” with 5,000 paper books in its public library. Farm folks from elsewhere drop by to read. E-books ideally will help them someday, with many more titles from which to choose; but paper books are the here and now. Whatever works!”

June 13, 2005 by Blake Uncategorized 1