Where will it end? Magazines and newspapers made a terrible mistake by sticking with paper. We had the technology for a Kindle-type reader years ago- they should have been ahead of the curve. Hopefully we will see a resurgence after this shakeout- digitally. I've been whining for 20 years about the horrifying waste of resources created by the newspaper industry, never mind the deadly toxins created by paper processing.
I'm not sure Kindle is the answer to the problem here. The problem isn't paper. The problem is generating revenue. And while I'm totally for conserving resources, the idea of reading the New York Times on a hand-held digital device is not particularly appealing.
Babies, Bathwater and the New Age
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The New Age movement is one of the great enigmas of our time. You won't
find hardly anyone willing to defend it or define themselves as a "New
Ager," and...
"NEBET-HET GISH": An X-FILES X-EGESIS
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Here's the piece that started it all. The Secret Sun, Our Gods Wear Spandex,
the upcoming book- none of it would exist without this X-Egesis, which I
did i...
Alt-History and Pop-Cult Symbology from the author of the Eagle Award-winning Our Gods Wear Spandex: The Secret History of Comic Book Heroes, published by Red Wheel/Weiser and co-author of The Complete X-Files: Behind the Series, the Myths, and the Movies, published by Insight Editions.
The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll is available from Viva Editions now!
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Where will it end? Magazines and newspapers made a terrible mistake by sticking with paper. We had the technology for a Kindle-type reader years ago- they should have been ahead of the curve. Hopefully we will see a resurgence after this shakeout- digitally. I've been whining for 20 years about the horrifying waste of resources created by the newspaper industry, never mind the deadly toxins created by paper processing.
::sigh::
I loved you, Judge. Perhaps I let my feelings overpower me at times, but what was I to do? Your lines...they were too much.
I mourn not. Pontiac has been the walking dead for decades. But it will live forever in Smokey and the Bandits reruns.
I'm not sure Kindle is the answer to the problem here. The problem isn't paper. The problem is generating revenue. And while I'm totally for conserving resources, the idea of reading the New York Times on a hand-held digital device is not particularly appealing.
Detroit - my home town - is suffering in ways that seem like the death throws of a once mighty beast.
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