Paul Carr is the process of elimination, writer. He writes a weekly column for TechCrunch, focusing on media and technology. For the first part of what he might run away his career, he edited various publications and founded multiple businesses with varying degrees of abysmal failure. After getting fired from every job he ever had – including at least ... ? Read More
A few days ago, I agree with those who whine that eBooks murder publication. In fact, I argued, "the golden era of books is not over. Golden era books are now ". Apparently, however, not all agree.
In an interview with BBC World at one radio programme of the Booker Prize winning author Graham Swift (the person) claimed that eBooks can actually impede new writers from writing. He said:
"I think the trend will be that writers will get even less than they get now for their work and unfortunately may mean that some potential authors will see that they cannot earn a living, they will give up, and the world would be poorer for the books they could have written, so in this case it's a pretty serious prospects."
You can read here, my response to Shilo. Spoiler alert: I disagree. Altogether.
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