Stross on how readers will discover books in future

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Stross on how readers will discover books in future

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1anglemark
Oct 11, 2013, 6:07 am

@shmjay shared this on my timeline on Facebook, and I think it deserves being reposted here:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/polemic-how-readers-will-dis...

I wonder how accurate the prediction is. More than I would wish, I suspect.

2timspalding
Oct 11, 2013, 6:50 am

Pretty silly, I think.

3anglemark
Oct 11, 2013, 7:24 am

All of it, or what parts?

4timspalding
Oct 11, 2013, 1:49 pm

It's just silly. Spam and trojans are solveable problems, and least problemmatic in ebooks because ebook platforms will restrict what's possible and what's not.