Recently, J.A. Konrath has a post on his blog about how he believes that ebooks are the future of the publishing industry. I don't necessarily disagree with him, but I've got some issues with his discussion of people who are resisting books in digital form that I wanted to address.* 1. Konrath's first point is this: I love the feel of a regular book. I hear this a lot. The tactile experience of cracking open the spine and turning the pages. The smell and feel of paper. We grew up reading paper, and we have a good relationship with it that fosters warm feelings. But what if we grew up reading ebooks ? Would paper have a single advantage? Who's to say you can't form that same bond with an ereader ? I'm sure you can form a bond with an ereader. And I'm sure that people growing up now are much more comfortable reading ebooks than even I am (and I'm pretty comfortable with digital content). And I'm not saying that ereaders won't become the domina
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