Anonymous Patron writes “Remember that remote autographing device being developed by Margaret Atwood? Well, The Globe and Mail says Thumbs down for Atwood’s invention. Although still in its development stage, Margaret Atwood’s remote autographing device has been given a thumbs down by users of abebooks.com, the world’s largest on-line retail site for rare and used books.
The Victoria-based company that maintains the site conducted a poll regarding Atwood’s device, which would enable an author in one location to inscribe a book for a reader in another location via computer terminals, and found that of their 460 respondents, 96 per cent felt that a book signed via a machine would be less valuable than one signed in person.”
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