Book People Archive

Re: serial books? serial libraries? 

> but it seems to me that the _mission_ of a newspaper is
> significantly different from that of a _book_.   (and a bridge
> between the two would be the _magazine_, i would think.)

And the mission of a technical manual is different from that of a
romance novel.  But they're both books, largely because they have a
common form factor.

Sure, I agree that the online NYT is a newspaper.  I'm suggesting,
though, that in the e-world an e-newspaper can be a kind of e-book, in
a way that it just isn't true for the p-newspaper and p-book.  To a
large extent, this is because they share a common delivery system and
reading system (a common form factor) in the e-world, but not in the
p-world.  I think this confluence will have back-effects on what kinds
of books get written, in probably both the e-world and the p-world.

Bill