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Online reading and writing become simliar experiences. They are both an act of engaging with content. 'Copy', 'paste','insert hyperlink', cutting bits up, rewriting and reworking texts is a technological reality, but at odds with traditional copyright. -- Elliott Bledsoe
Are books such as we write irrelevant, outmoded? Perhaps so - but only if you believe that the human race has no emotional, cultural or intellectual need for sustained narrative or argument, for carefully crafted prose, for slow writing and for work that we will still want to read years after publication, which will speak to us in ways old blog posts or tweets never will. -- Linda Jaivin
