Ebay’s Literary Oddities

Aug 30, 2010 by jaymac    No Comments    Posted under: Embracing Each Day

Sometimes you hear about new technology, like Amazon’s Kindle or Apple’s iPad that seem poised to take over the beloved paperback. Pundits cry out “The book is dead!” Yes, there’s all sorts of new and interesting ways to tell stories, like what I wrote about a few days ago in “The Future of Storytelling.”

Then you read about Ebay’s literary oddities and you instinctively know that we’ll be able to feel the paper and smell the glue of the binding for quite some time. Why? If fans continue to buy the Russian Ernest Hemingway lapel pin, the Albert Camus earrings or the Sherlock Holmes fingerpuppet, it tells me that not all fans will put up with the fancy, new and shiny way to read. Instead, they just want to see the ink on the page.

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