Erin Pettigrew

Jan 16 2008 LINK

Steve Jobs on Kindle and other e-readers: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” [via Gizmodo]

Some people took this as a misguided jab at literacy, but the the larger point about the decline of the traditional book publishing industry as an entertainment medium and how it doesn’t compare to hanging out online where you can view attention-cropped content on…