Comments on: Is Print Going to Die?

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:11:03 +0000

Gimme a bit. I’m doing some template work.

By: L.L. Barkat

L.L. Barkat — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:45:23 +0000

Hey, where’d you go? I don’t see you and the kids here anymore. Boo hoo.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:31:26 +0000

Charity, I agree completely. I’m a very social person, so writing long long projects alone is torturous. That’s why I think more and more I am leaning toward performance writing like poetry and drama, and social writing like this blog.

Susan, I have no idea where that comment went. Yesterday I was playing around with some new template options and you probably logged on right in the middle of my play time. I’m sure whatever you said was brilliant!

Jesse, certainly the current form of eBooks does not work. And for editing, I always print documents and spread the pages across my desk. But editing is a unique kind of experience for me–hardly reading at all in some ways.

I hear what you are saying about the newspaper, but honestly, if I had an affordable, foldable, flexible, 11×17 screen that allowed me to subscribe to 8 daily newspapers (and search them easily), I would never miss getting black ink all over my hands and face. That might sounds like science fiction, but I don’t think it is too far off.

By: Jesse Petersen

Jesse Petersen — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:51:21 +0000

I don’t think so. I will probably always take a newspaper or magazine to the restroom.

Something about an e-book on a PDA is intangible at times. Tactile reading offers greater retention and understanding for me.

When I’m doing a serious edit on a document, it’s amazing how much better (and faster at the same time) I am when I do it with a hard copy.

How about you?

By: Susan

Susan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:24:47 +0000

I tried to leave you a comment – but somehow, maybe because I was on a different computer – the whole setup seemed wrong and it said that “comment moderation” had been enabled. So, if you didn’t actually get it, please let me know and I will see if I cand reconstruct it. It was a very interesting post!

By: Charity Singleton

Charity Singleton — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:55:13 +0000

Marcus — I struggle with this whole subject a lot. For me, it usually boils down to how I’m spending my time. Do I write what I want — which probably will never be sold? Or do I try to write for a particular market, still staying true to who I am, but writing more narrowly. I like how you probably relationship into this. If I just sit in my room and write with no context for readers to enter in, is it really writing worth my time?

As you can see, even though I think about this a lot, I don’t usually end up with many conclusions!