I am still stuck on this whole future of the book thing that I posted about yesterday. I can't get away from the fact that we are so focused on what's ahead that we don't anticipate the ramifications of if. For those of us who want to get a writing career going there are so many advantages to the written word going online. Just think, I can write an article for almost any publication around the world from any location around the world and get it to them in seconds and read it the moment it is 'published'. There are opportunities to get published, to start building a good 'published' portfolio available now that bypass the years that writers may have had to take to get to the same point in the past. But if by participating in that, we are inadvertently wrecking the things that made us fall in love with the written word in the first place, the book, the newspaper or magazines, well, aren't we missing the point? I am not suggesting that we do things differently, just consciously.
Googlebooks just made a deal to get a staggering number more books online.
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