A tale of two mediums: Despite the iPad, traditional books aren’t going anywhere.

Filed under: iPad It was the newest of technologies, it was the oldest of technologies. A while back I wrote an opinion piece on my lament over Penguin Books’ John Makinson trying to reinvent books on the iPad. In response to the article, I received emails that ranged from people calling me a Luddite to readers asking me to petition Penguin to keep books from becoming audio, video, and streaming monstrosities. What people on both sides of the debate misunderstood was that I am not against ebooks. I’m against turning an ebook into a multimedia experience that detracts from the work of literature

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A tale of two mediums: Despite the iPad, traditional books aren’t going anywhere.

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