- The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re All Going To Miss Almost Everything : Monkey See : NPR "It's undoubtedly true; there are things that fade. But I can't help blaming, in part, the fact that we also simply have access to more and more things to choose from more and more easily. Netflix, Amazon, iTunes – you wouldn't have to go and search dusty used bookstores or know the guy who works at a record store in order to hear most of that stuff you're missing. You'd only have to choose to hear it." On being well-read, now.
- British Library buys poet’s 40,000 emails – News, Gadgets & Tech – The Independent "Elaborate signatures, perfumed missives and intimate scribbled secrets are set to disappear from literary archives as they become increasingly full of one-line emails, spam and Amazon.co.uk receipts." – This is the dumb response to the amazing future news.
- Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books Cat, meet pigeons.
- E-book piracy may have unexpected benefits for publishers – Business – CBC News
- Lester Bangs’ Basement: What it means to have all music instantly available. – By Bill Wyman – Slate Magazine What it means to have all X instantly available.
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