Mims's Bits: The Death of the Book has been arrested by wishful thinking

Technology Review: Blogs: Mims's Bits: The Death of the Book has Been Greatly Exaggerated

This sloppy exercise in selective blindness and wishful thinking tries to prove that e-books are going to change the publishing industry irrevocably and that this "revolution" is really an evolution that began when the first home computers hit the shelves.

Books have a kind of usability that, for most people, isn't about to be trumped by bourgeoisie concerns about portability: They are the only auto-playing, backwards-compatible to the dawn of the English language, entirely self-contained medium we have left.

What kind of twisted argument is this? Bourgeoisie? Are you speaking on behalf of the workers and their preference for leather-bound hardcovers? No. You represent a view that has (or wants) a room in their house they call the "library" and don't have to stand in a subway car for an hour every morning to get to work.