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Did technology kill the book or give it new life?
Digital technology has certainly had a profound effect on the traditional book publishing and retailing industries, but has it also given the book a new lease of life? At one point it looked as if the rise of e-books at knock-down prices and e-readers like Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook posed an existential threat to book publishers and sellers. "Literature found itself at war with the internet," as Jim Hinks, digital editor of Comma Press, succinctly puts it.
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