Are You Still Reading Graphic Novels?

I read a lot on my iPad and the thing that astonishes me about reading ebooks is the fact that publishers, I think, still thinking of them as just kind of a cheap way to distribute a book. Part of the work of a really skillful, historical textual editor is trying to decipher what those editions tell us. You get into the realm of electronic publishing and chaos erupts. We don't know what's based on what. But in terms of actual book and reading technology, it's obviously a step forward in terms of immediate accessibility,. but it's a step backward in terms of the actual cultural properties embedded in the book.

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