Friday, January 29, 2010

We are still using candles, aren't we? So books and newspapers printed on paper will last for a long long time, in tandem with the Digital Revolution upon us......

NEWS ITEM: January 31, 2010 -- Taipei, Taiwan

When asked if one day books on paper might disappear, given the digital revolution and the introduction of the Kindle and the SONY E-reader and the Apple iPad, Linden Lin, a veteran book editor, publisher and book fair CEO, said, with a laugh, as if to signal that books will be with us for a long time to come: "We are still using candles, aren't we?"

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