You worry about the next generation of readers. Is literature
going to survive? It seems to be surviving at the moment, but the
iPhone has been around since 2007, and the way that...
I was very scared that it was translated into German. I really
wanted it to be translated but still scared, because
it’s like their war. I come from another country with
another perspective on the war and write about
their war and their forefathers....
Chief Executive Officer of The
Tattered Cover Book Stores
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I think it would be interesting for independent booksellers to
experiment with selling eBooks directly, because it’s become much
less device-centric. Tablets have in some ways normalized that
world, and the notion...
If people were evolving away from reading long-form reading,
we would not have series. But right now people will
say, “Oh yes, that’s great. It’s a 200-page book, but I want a
thousand pages about this character. So I
think...