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This economy could help literacy...Aug 23 '00 (Updated Aug 27 '00) Write an essay on this topic.I am an avid reader, I mean, no matter how many book shelves I buy I just end up needing more and they know me by name at several Barnes and Nobles even though I live in a city of over a million people! First off let me say that nothing will ever replace the comfort and joy of curling up with a good book and I don't think that is the intention of most. I really had not put much thought into this until I decided to give Stephen King's "The Plant" a try. I mean it's ONLY a dollar an installment you can't beat that! At that low price and with the ability to pay later in any form he has made it available to everyone and that may very well increase reading rates if other material became available as well. Let's face it, King is not everyone's cup of tea. In a time when illiteracy is rampant anything that encourages reading is great in my book. I am a realist and know of too many kids who will surf the web barely able to read it before they will read free books in the library. They might however download a King book because it's "cool" or it's anonymous and as I said, if more authors took the chance he did it might raise some readers. I do think he has taken a chance, I mean he is operating on the honor system there, you download and pay later if you want because he wanted all of us to be able to partake and I like that. I hope all respect that and pay so he will continue future works in the line. I think people should give it a chance. It will never replace books, no, but like audio books it will have it's place. It will open doors for people who might otherwise not have as much access. This is also a chance to see what can be done between only the author and his/her public without publishers and stores between them. That will also be interesting to see. Will it turn out to be beneficial to us all perhaps? A chance to be closer to the authors and them to us? That could only lead to more satisfying works could it not? Let's give this a chance and see what happens, perhaps we don't always need large publishing houses to have a good book. Maybe just a good storyteller and a printer. As I said earlier nothing will replace the intimate and satisfying experience of a good book these may be the answer of what to print up and tuck in your backpack for that boring bus ride for instance. A convenience merely, that while it will appeal to some, make life easy for many it will not replace "the real thing". Just look at microwave pizza.  |
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