The future of "Vanity Publishing" and what good are books for? Editor's note and guilty pleasure – I still like to turn pages and scribble in the margins…
"The availability of easy publishing tools has turned writing on one level into “a hobby-like, artisanal thing, like knitting” he said, where people just write as a normal part of their daily lives — something that is very much unlike the “supply-chain” model that traditional publishing has gotten used to."
The book is great technology, but it's not good for everything
Printed books may have been groundbreaking technology 500 years ago, and they still have plenty of value as an information-distribution platform — but they are no longer good for every purpose, Matt M…