Reading and writing

In the latest New Yorker, Ken Auletta has a superb piece on the economics of the publishing industry and the competition between the Kindle and the iPad. At one point he quotes Steve Jobs saying that he had been uninterested in eBooks because people don't read anymore. This is a common lament and I've made it myself. But it's not true. People read a ton. They just don't read books as much as they used to. They read blogs and web pages. And because they (and I) read blogs and web pages all...