Thursday, October 29, 2015

How the book fought back against the Kindle – The Times (subscription)

We were Told the book was dead. Reading the we Knew it was over. Could we forget Bookshops and browsing and bedtime stories, Which in the post-Kindle world would never be the same again.

In 2007, When Amazon released the first of its sleek, silky tablets, the publishing industry Began to panic. These revolutionary readers looked like the future (They Were even the color of the future: steely gray). It suddenly Seemed that “real” books would gather cobwebs and disappear dustily into the past.

The furious speed with ebooks Which Were taking over the world was surprising even Amazon. The

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