Hanging On To the Past In the Face of the Future

It’s almost mocking the future, holding the past up to its face as if defying the future to really happen.

And that’s exactly what KindleGraph is doing with its attempt to recreate the book-signing experience with e-books.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/do-authors-dream-of-electric-book-signings-kindlegraph-hopes-so/

I can’t express enough just how wrong this is. As an author and a publisher, I love the printed word. I think it’s fantastic. And self-publishing tools like Amazon’s CreateSpace a...