A New Look at the Left Wing

I suggested to him that this was precisely what they didn’t like - you have to warp your mind to perceive it, to understand why a publisher of books would hate the book as a concept, but there you have it. They don’t like that books are immutable, transferable objects whose payload never degrades. A digital “book” - caged on a device, licensed, not purchased - is the sort of thing that greases their mandibles with digestive enzymes.

Imagine what these people must think of libraries.