Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry, It might be a loss to you, but it would be a big gain for the Earth's forest cover. Now if we could only teach these Westerners to use a mug of water rather than toilet paper...(-: Cheers Jayanand On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>wrote: > It's not only the small independent book stores that are closing. Borders, > the giant book retailer, just filed for bankruptcy and announced that they > will close 200 stores. For those Luggers unfamiliar with the U.S. > publishing > market, Borders is second only to Barnes and Noble as a retail book outlet. > The stores are as big as supermarkets. Blame it all on TV, Amazon, the > iPad, > the Kindle, the Nook and the general loss of reading interest by the > information consuming public. > > > Today I heard an interview with one of the mavens of the digital age who > proclaimed that, within a few years, print on paper would disappear as a > form of communication and information transmission. This would be a real > loss for old timers like me. I seem to be one of the few fully computer > literate octogenarians in my community and even I am intimidated by the > complexity of current technology. My wife finds the pushbutton telephone a > challenge and she is not alone. She has never learned the intricacies of > the > TV remote control. But she enjoys reading and viewing images on printed > pages. And buys dozens of books a year. If books become obsolete what will > we do with all the shelf space? > > > Larry Z > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >