A couple weeks ago, we went to a discussion at the Commonwealth Club entitled The Future of the Book: Dead or Alive.

Unsurprisingly, no one thought that books were going to die out anytime soon. Brewster Kahle showed off a prototype book reader on the OLPC, and said something which I’ve never heard anyone say before. He held up a book produced by the Internet Archive Bookmobile and said that now it costs less to print a book and give it away than it does to loan it out from a library. And that means we can give away books and pay authors at the same time.

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