[WEB4LIB] Re: NYT magazine piece on e-books

[Jerry Kuntz]

Bullets of the pros and cons can be found at:
http://www.rcls.org/ebookcrib.htm

Jerry Kuntz
Ramapo Catskill Library System
jkuntz at rcls.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Roy Tennant <rtennant at library.berkeley.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: NYT magazine piece on e-books


> On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Tom Peters wrote [in part]:
>
> > At this point in the development of the *debate* about the future of the
> > book, I wish I could find a good, calm,
> > historically/technologically/theoretically informed summary of the
primary
> > arguments for and against ebooks.  Does anyone know of such a document?
>
> That's what we need all right, although I would prefer it be stated not as
> "primary arguments for and against ebooks", since I think that is really
> the problem with this "debate". It should not be "for and against", but
> rather the relative merits of both e-books and p-books. Although I'm a
> firm believe that p-books aren't going away any time soon, I'm just as
> firm a believer that neither will e-books. Nor should either of them go
> away. So what "niches" do they properly fill in the communication ecology?
> For what purposes will we turn to one over the other? *That* is well worth
> an article, and would do more to inform this discussion than anything I've
> yet seen.
> Roy
>