{"id":3580,"date":"2009-10-16T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2009-10-16T17:08:01","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:08:01","slug":"brought_to_book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3580","title":{"rendered":"Brought to Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Fenton and Salamander Davoudi<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The new way of reading books arrived hesitantly. It exploited a novel technology, reflected changing public habits of consumption and radically altered the distribution and economics of the traditional publishing industry.
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\nThe paperback represented an intimidating revolution to the 1930s book industry. It took high literature to a far wider audience. But established publishers disdained it, fearing it would cheapen the industry and drive down profits. It might not have been \u2013 as its ancestor the pamphlet novel was in the 1840s \u2013 assailed as a threat to the \u201ceyesight of a rising generation\u201d, yet the reaction had much else in common with how the emergence of the electronic book is now being regarded.
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\nAt the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, the talk has been all about the impact of the e-book, with scores of sessions and seminars devoted to discussing the implications of devices such as Amazon\u2019s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Another hot topic is Google\u2019s digitisation of, so far, 10m books including about 9m still protected by copyright.
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Ben Fenton and Salamander Davoudi<\/a>: <\/p>\n

The new way of reading books arrived hesitantly. It exploited a novel technology, reflected changing public habits of consumption and radically altered the distribution and economics of the traditional publishing industry.
\n


\nThe paperback represented an intimidating revolution to the 1930s book industry. It took high literature to a far wider audience. But established publishers disdained it, fearing it would cheapen the industry and drive down profits. It might not have been \u2013 as its ancestor the pamphlet novel was in the 1840s \u2013 assailed as a threat to the \u201ceyesight of a rising generation\u201d, yet the reaction had much else in common with how the emergence of the electronic book is now being regarded.
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\nAt the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, the talk has been all about the impact of the e-book, with scores of sessions and seminars devoted to discussing the implications of devices such as Amazon\u2019s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Another hot topic is Google\u2019s digitisation of, so far, 10m books including about 9m still protected by copyright.
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