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Adam Crowe
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog -- Words in stone and on the wind - http://www.roughtype.com/archive...
'The integrity of the page has been so intrinsic to the technology of the book (and the book's predecessors) that most of us assume it to be intrinsic to the very idea of a book. But, as we're now discovering, it's not. A printed book is a printed book is a printed book. An ebook is not an ebook is not an ebook. Because it lacks the necessity and the fixity of a print run, e-publishing once again can become an ongoing process rather than an event, which is likely to change the perceptions of writers and their collaborators. And when you change your perception of what you're creating, you will also change how you create it. I think it's fair to say that these kinds of shifts are subtle and play out over a long time, but in some ways the erosion of the sense of a written work's completeness and self-containment may ultimately change literature as much as the underlying technological changes.' -- An ear for an eye - Adam Crowe