I just listened to a panel on CBC Radio:  “The Future of the Book.”   An hour of people across the writing and publishing spectrum in a race to the bottom detailing the impending tyranny of digital reading and the electronic reader.  Everyone had a hard fact and a study to back up the dark days ahead scenario but it all amounted to the same refrain:   Privacy, profits, privacy, profits, over and over again.  Got the point the first time.  What I didn’t hear any discussion about was how the ideas that come out of ANY kind of reading, like in music, can fuel imaginations and bring some (any?) kind of change.  What a bunch of grumblers. More reading & writing at all costs I say. 
Or maybe I’m the complainer…
 
 
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