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Newsday: Literary Edition
RottingCorpse:
Power of books, man. I think subconsciously people understand that the digital written word is somehow susceptible to tampering and deletion.
Plus, books are personal items, far more than so than DVDS or CDs/Records/8-Tracks* etc. I just don't want to go back and read Stephen King's "Christine". I want to read *my* copy of "Christine".
(*I do accept that music moreso than movies have that personal attachment, but the album covers and media itself is still far less important than the actual music.)
nacho:
For the first time in a very long time I succumbed to the hype and ordered The Martian: A Novel
It's a one hit self-published freakout that got picked up and reissued by a proper publisher, written by a software engineer who was just fucking around with an app he made:
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/02/the-martian-software/
It's one of those novels that everyone is talking about -- not just the sci-fi geeks, but it went cross genre the instant Crown picked it out of the sewage of self-published stuff.
It ships today! After the (still amazing Red Moon) I'll dive right in...
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