Do you think the advent of the Kindle and other similar digitual reading devices will eventually impact the way authors write?

QUESTION FROM KIRK W.: Do you think the advent of the Kindle and other similar digitual reading devices will eventually impact the way authors conceive of literary narrative? Is it possible that they will begin to write differently because it’s a different medium than the physical book?

NICHOLSON BAKER: I can’t imagine that the format of publication won’t affect the way things flow to some degree. We already know that writing for blogs has a different rhythm that is the result of screenloads and the attention span in a clickable world. But it all comes back to somebody telling you a story or laying out a complicated nesting set of arguments.