Paper 2.0
From this piece in Douglas Gray’s blog:
I’ve been arguing for years that hypertext does not represent any threat to the book. Here’s a case of the web’s influence to preserve a traditional aesthetic in writing while revolutionizing the economics of publishing, for the benefit of writers and publishers and the public.
When you have unlimited reach, your physical product simply can’t lose market share to its digital reproduction. But it’s the idea of unlimited reach for all of us that we’re still adjusting to, I think. Even digital files were still scarce in a sense before everything became networked. But since that has changed, the idea that we can sell more of a thing because we restrict access to its digital reproduction seems patently stupid to me.